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"Chat & Chew" book club tackles "Poverty" Nov. 15

UA-PTC's virtual book club, "Chat & Chew," will return Wednesday, Nov. 15 at noon with a discussion of Poverty, By America, by sociologist Matthew Desmond. The event is held virtually on the Teams app. The link will be shared prior to the event.

Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to participate. To sign up or to learn more visit www.uaptc.edu/bookclub. The book is available at UA-PTC Ottenheimer Libraries, at your local public library, and everywhere books are sold.

The "Chat & Chew" book club is organized by the UA-PTC Cultural Diversity and Community Involvement Committee.

About Poverty, By America, from the author's website:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023:
The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Elle, Salon, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews

The 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?

In 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. Elegantly 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.