NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with sociologist Matthew Desmond about his new book, "Poverty, by America." He says poverty persists in the U.S. because the rest of our society benefits from it.

In Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, argues that we need to examine the behavior and priorities not of the poor but of “those of us living lives of privilege and ...

Writing Books Remains a Tough Way to Make a Living A new Authors Guild survey finds that median book and writing-related income for authors in 2022 was below the poverty level.

Two newly released books tell the same story of poverty: one, a novel. The other, a meticulously researched treatise on factors that create poverty and the steps that could be — but are not ...

Poverty is not produced by the poor, Desmond insists, and so we must take into account “those of us living lives of privilege and plenty,” who too often think that we have little to do with ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social ...

Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it. This is the thesis of the lauded sociologist Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, by America.The best ...

Scottish Book Trust has given over 290,000 books to children in need of support, living in deprived areas, through food banks, community hubs and… ...

Scottish Book Trust has given over 290,000 books to children in need of support, living in deprived areas, through food banks, community hubs and other charities. Obviously, that’s a huge and ...