The cover of "Poverty, by America." (Courtesy) This article is more than 2 years old. Two newly released books tell the same story of poverty: one, a novel.

Photograph by Alex Plechko If most book covers get five-second glances, spend 15 with this one. After a time, you’ll notice little bouncing gestures with the type. Then you’ll notice the speck.

Genre: Public Policy - Social Policy, Poverty & Homelessness, Social Classes & Economic Disparity Published: March 21, 2023 Previous Rank: n/a Buy at Bookshop.org ...

What Desmond’s book so deftly shows is that poverty is not a personal failure. It’s the result of a society willing to turn a blind eye to its own inequities. — Shannon Carlin ...

His new book Poverty, By America, provides a provocative and compelling answer: It's because the rest of us benefit from it, and act to keep it that way.

And so experiencing poverty over a lifetime can be captured with health measures really well. To build the Index, we combined income- and health-based indicators: poverty; deep poverty — that means ...

POVERTY, BY AMERICA, by Matthew Desmond Over the past decade or two, it has become fashionable to attribute major social ills to underlying “systemic” and “structural” causes.

The book, titled Escaping Poverty's Grasp: The Environmental Foundations of Poverty Reduction, builds on WWF's long-standing strength of working at the local level in vulnerable places around the ...