Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...
The persistence of American poverty. “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice. Early in my college teaching career, upon sharing an incidental detail of my ...
Sociology is a discipline that involves the study of society, behavior, and social relationships. Sociology assists ...
On March 9, 2015, as part of the Sociology Research Lunches informal presentations, Professor Emily Kane, Department of Sociology, Bates College, presented on Poverty, Family and Community: A ...