Matthew Desmond
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January 2026 | Poverty Awareness Month
OBD NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - ADULT
Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction
OBD NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - ADULT
Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction
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"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched...
Author
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English
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Poverty Awareness Month
2023 Best Adult Fiction & Nonfiction (SCPL)
Best Non Fiction of 2023
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2023 Best Adult Fiction & Nonfiction (SCPL)
Best Non Fiction of 2023
More Lists...
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...