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Control # 1 2022052347
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20230411102804.0
Fixed Data 8 221208s2023 nyu 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2022052347
ISBN 20    $a9780593239919$q(hardcover)
ISBN 20    $z9780593239926$q(ebook)
Obsolete 39    $a377264$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $an-us---
LC Call 50 00 $aHC110.P6$bD46 2023
Dewey Class 82 00 $a362.50973$223/eng/20230118
ME:Pers Name 100 $aDesmond, Matthew,$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aPoverty, by America /$cMatthew Desmond.
Edition 250    $aFirst edition.
Projectd Pub 263    $a2303
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bCrown,$cc2023.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a284 pages ;$c23 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:General 500    $aIncludes index.
Abstract 520    $a"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom"--$cProvided by publisher.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPoverty$xPrevention.
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