Tag: exclusion
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Examining the Flaws in Matthew Desmond’s “Poverty, by America”
Sociologist Matthew Desmond poses a simple question in his new book, Poverty, by America: “Why is there so much poverty in America?” Desmond, a MacArthur genius-grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted, seeks to answer this question both as a social scientist and as a “poverty abolitionist.” He argues that we collectively exploit the…