Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond discusses contemporary poverty in America, who is responsible, and potential solutions to solve this issue. Author Desmond, who has extensive knowledge about this topic, teaching and writing about it previously, has spent countless times with individual within poverty and comes from poverty himself. Taking a different approach, Desmond starts the book analyzing the type of issue poverty is, he discusses ways to empower the poor, and how to end poverty for good. Come back within a few days to view my reaction and takeaways from this book.

What made me Grab this?

Poverty is an issue I always knew about, but never saw anyone make an active effort to end it for good. Essentially, poverty was and is always around. While skimming a few books about poverty, this one caught my eye. While reading the prologue, the sheer statistics of poverty in this country hooked me on.