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This reads as a challenge to stereotypes that reduce poverty to lowered ambition. It suggests that people in poverty are not asking for less life, but for the conditions to live fully and to be useful to others. It lands in debates about welfare or work, where the real question is not desire, but opportunity and dignity.
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About Matthew Desmond
American sociologist
Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and professor at Princeton University. He is known for his work on housing, poverty, and inequality, and for leading the Eviction Lab there. At Princeton, he serves as the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and as principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
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Books by Matthew Desmond
Evicted
2017
Race in America
2016