A review by sydapel
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

informative fast-paced

4.5

Rating non-fiction feels odd to me, but this was hard hitting in all the right ways. You'd think I'd run out of capacity to be surprised at how conditioned we are to expect needless and easily solved suffering, but unfortunately the depths of the shame I have for how often this country fails it's citizens is endless. I particularly like how directly Desmond calls out middle and upper class Americans for benefitting from the conditions of poverty, especially when we often benefit directly from similar programs. 
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