Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

284 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.The United States, the richest country on earth,...

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informative 95%
challenging 51%
reflective 47%
inspiring 31%
hopeful 21%
sad 20%
emotional 13%
dark 7%
tense 2%

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fast 33%
slow 8%

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