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May 29, 2024 · Last spring, Matthew Desmond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” retooled a large lecture course he had been teaching, to coincide with the publication of his latest book, “Poverty, by America.” The new seminar was capped at 15 students.
4 days ago · 6/23/2024 at 6:00pm. STEVENS SQUARE COMMUNITY CENTER, 631 Stevens Ave. Portland, ME 04103. About the Author: Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. His last book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National ...
May 26, 2024 · Desmond argues for the abolition of poverty, predicting that it would make us more materially secure and psychologically healthy, as well as more free. As he frames it, “A nation invested in ending poverty is a nation that is truly, obsessively committed to freedom.”
6 days ago · Commencement Speaker: Matthew Desmond. Dr. Desmond, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of The New York Times bestsellers "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" (DGSOM Common Book selection for 2017-18) and "Poverty, By America" (DGSOM Common Book selection for 2023-2024).
May 23, 2024 · Read the accompanying essays by Matthew Desmond, Mehrsa Baradran, Trymaine Lee, and Tiya Miles in The 1619 Project to better understand the violent theft that was slavery and how it echoes in the brutality of American capitalism today:
May 27, 2024 · Attorney Raphael Ramos of Wisconsin's Eviction Defense Project. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Evicted, Matthew Desmond's book quotes a woman he calls Arleen describing the profound exhaustion of trying to keep a roof over her children's heads. She says, “Just my soul is messed up."
May 29, 2024 · Matthew Desmond, who wrote “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” spoke Wednesday at VCU’s Siegel Center in Richmond.
