Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

I wanted to try to write a book about poverty that didn’t focus exclusively on poor people or poor places. Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

But of course, poverty in America is bigger than the housing crisis. We are the richest country on earth, with more poverty than any other advanced democracy. In my new book, “Poverty, by America,” I lay out why there is so much poverty in this land of dollars and make a case for how to eliminate it. I lay out why there is so much poverty in this land of dollars and make a case for how to eliminate it.I hope you’ll pick it up and continue the conversation with me here on Goodreads! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61358638-poverty-by-america