loppear reviewed Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists …
Urgent and direct
5 stars
Poverty abolitionism. Blends description of the exploitative two-tier society we all participate in, earnest responses to socioeconomic myths about destitution and welfare, and policy possibilities for undoing the ways society and government actively perpetuates both wealth and poverty.