by Matthew Desmond
A heartbreakingly enlightening read. You may be familiar with Matthew Desmond's Pulitzer Prize winning look at housing entitled, Evicted. In this book, the Harvard professor examines why poverty exists in the richest country on Earth. He debunks complicated theories and myths and offers a simple explanation, “It’s more complicated than that, some will say. Most social problems are complicated, of course, but a retreat into complexity is more often a reflection of our social standing than evidence of critical intelligence. Hungry people want bread...The simple reason poverty exists is because it's ****ing profitable.”