Poverty, by America
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads Choice Awards – Nonfiction | 2023 | Winner |
About This Book
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Evicted, Matthew Desmond makes the case that poverty in America persists not through neglect but because affluent Americans actively benefit from it—through cheap labour, segregated housing markets, tax policies, and financial products designed to extract wealth from the poor. A polemical and meticulously argued call to end poverty through collective action.
About the Author
Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and author, currently the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the founding director of the Eviction Lab, a research center that tracks and studies eviction in the United States. His book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016) won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and the National Book Award shortlist. Read more →
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