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A Drop in American Gun Violence
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“Where you live should not decide/ Whether you live or whether you die.”
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And what they reveal about alleviating poverty across the country
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In new book, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond urges individuals to commit to abolishing American poverty
In the prologue to his latest book, Matthew Desmond bluntly assesses who we are in the United States, “the richest country on earth, with more poverty than any other advanced democracy.”
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