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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.