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 ...

Margaret Talbot writes about “Poverty, by America,” a new book by Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted.” ...

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.

Barber, a Black anti-poverty activist, knew that in 1923 nearly all the county’s Black residents were driven out of Mitchell ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...