Interviews
Interviews

Interviews
Poverty In America with Matthew Desmond
Poverty In America with Matthew Desmond
We all know that poverty is an existing problem in the United States, but what does that really mean in a country with so much wealth? Sharon is joined by Matthew Desmond, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. Together, they discuss his best-selling book, Poverty, By America, and take a hard look at poverty in one of the richest countries in the world, while reimagining how we perceive poverty.
- Host: Sharon McMahon
- Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks
- Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon
- Audio Producer: Craig Thompson

- Host: Sharon McMahon
- Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks
- Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon
- Audio Producer: Craig Thompson
Guests
Guests

Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. His last book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, among others. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Desmond is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.