Kyle Harrison
to-read
Poverty, by America
- Author
- Matthew Desmond
- Published
- 2023
- Pages
- 288
- Recommended
- 5 times
Why it’s on the list: Matthew Desmond’s argument that American poverty persists because the rest of the country benefits from it — and what ending it would ask of everyone who isn’t poor.
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at SFO — April 2024 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Beach Books, Seaside — July 2024 (Books photo album)
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Matthew Desmond — his other major work, which I flagged as missing while writing up his page.
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Bearded Reader / Adam (@beardedreaderadam) — in his BookTok video of “nonfiction books to radicalize your reading.”
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Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach — on the health-care-and-poverty shelf in the store’s BookTok video, “our personal syllabus for this semester as we say goodbye to tiktok.”
Connections
- Matthew Desmond — where this book is cited.