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DESCRIPTION:For our June and July meetings we are reading Poverty by America, by 
 Matthew Desmond.\n\nFor  our June meeting we’ll be reading the first 
 five chapters.\nFor  the  July  meeting  we will finish the book.\nThe 
 United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any 
 other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in 
 every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores 
 of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its 
 corporations to pay poverty wages?\n\nIn this landmark book, acclaimed 
 sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original 
 reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep 
 poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, 
 driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and 
 access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth 
 over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the 
 most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive 
 communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of 
 concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may 
 grow.\n\nElegantly 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. He calls on us all to become poverty 
 abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a 
 new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.\nStrike Debt Bay 
 Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and 
 radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut 
 Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its 
 Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The 
 Deficit Myth,  Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium 
 , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The 
 Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing 
 Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn 
 of Everything  A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond 
 Money, Less is More,  Cannibal Capitalism, and Debt, the First 5000 
 Years.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/06/10/18856548.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond
LOCATION:Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online 
 invite.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/06/10/18856548.php
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