On October 2, Matthew Desmond will be here to discuss Poverty, By America, a landmark book that shows how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor, and helps us imagine solutions. Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. Online tickets are available for this important evening with Matthew Desmond on Monday, October 2. Join us from wherever you are! 💜 pghartslectures 🔗 #MatthewDesmond #PovertyByAmerica #ThingsToDoInPittsburgh #WhatToDo412 #PittsburghLife