Hooked on Books Book Group - Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

We will discuss the book Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond. Registration is preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. Copies of the book can be checked out at the Service Center.

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
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. 

Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.