Many thanks to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for gifting me a digital ARC of the new book by Pulitzer Prize winning author of Evicted, Matthew Desmond - 4 stars!
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. In this book, Desmond, gives his opinions as to why this is true and ways to change it.
I was a huge fan of Evicted, and it made me think and feel so much about the plight of the poor and homeless. This book should make you feel all that as well, but to me it was more of an opinion piece. Desmond gave lots of ways we can change poverty (getting the IRS to change tax laws and go after the cheaters, for example) which are great in theory but difficult in practice. Many of his suggestions may help some but hurt the middle-class poor in the process. It's important that this is a conversation though, but realize this is definitely a left-leaning book.
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