Matthew Desmond, a Princeton sociologist, is the author of a new book that explores why poverty remains at a higher level in the United States than many of its peer countries. On Thursday, March 30 at 11:00 a.m. ET, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer joins Washington Post deputy business editor Damian Paletta to discuss “Poverty, by America” and why such hardship persists in the richest country in the world.

Stream here: wapo.st/desmondmarch2023

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