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Book review: Wealth of possibility unrealised in Poverty, By America
Pulitzer prize winner Matthew Desmond uses powerful personal experiences to help us grasp a critical topic, but his argument then sadly tapers off into statistics
The United States is the richest country on earth. So why are its rates of poverty the highest in the developed world?
In Poverty, by America, sociologist and Pulitzer Prize winner Matthew Desmond sets out to find the root cause of scarcity in this land of plenty. After spending most of his adult life researching and reporting on poverty, he feels no closer to a reasonable theory as to why it’s so widespread. Here he ...
