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Author Talk: Matthew Desmond
Season 2023
Episode 8
PBS Books hosts Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University to discuss his latest release “Poverty, by America.” 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.
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