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Poverty, by America with Matthew Desmond and Lauren Collins

Tue March 18 @ 19 h 30 - 20 h 30

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond discusses his latest book Poverty, by America, which tackles inequality in the richest country on earth.

Why does poverty persist in the richest nation on earth? Acclaimed sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted, Matthew Desmond returns with Poverty, by America, a searing indictment of how the wealthiest Americans sustain inequality at the expense of the poor. Through history, research, and original reporting, Desmond exposes the systems that exploit and exclude, while offering a bold vision for poverty abolition and collective belonging.

The conversation will be moderated by Lauren Collins.

About the speaker:

Dr. Matthew Desmond is a Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and Founder of The Eviction Lab, which created the first national dataset on evictions in America. He is the author of five books, including Poverty, by America (2023) and Evicted (2016). His work, praised by The New Yorker and Esquire, examines why poverty persists in America. Desmond writes for The New York Times Magazine and other outlets. A past MacArthur Fellow, his research focuses on urban sociology, poverty, race, and ethnography.

Lauren Collins began contributing to the New Yorker in 2003 and became a staff writer in 2008. Her subjects have included Michelle Obama, Donatella Versace, the graffiti artist Banksy, Emmanuel Macron, the refugee crisis, and equal pay. Since 2015 she has been based in Paris, covering stories mainly from France. She is the author of When in French: Love in a Second Language, which the Times named as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2016. She is working on a second book, about a coup d’état perpetrated by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, and its effects over the past hundred and twenty years.

Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room), the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions.

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Evenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)
thanks to the generous support of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten of GRoW @ Annenberg.

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Date:
Tue March 18
Time:
19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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Poverty, by America with Matthew Desmond and Lauren Collins
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