Library Talk: Poverty in Iowa

The Des Moines Public Library is partnering with other Iowa libraries and Uplift - The Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot on a series of programs aimed at having important community conversations about poverty and its effect on Iowa. For more information about the series and about Uplift, please go to dmpl.org/poverty.

Join us for a special edition of Books That Will Change Your Life: A Nonfiction Book Club.  Each month we have a conversation around a life-changing nonfiction book.  We’ll select a book that will change your perspective, give you new strategies for handling life’s challenges, or deepen your understanding of a topic.

Some of the books have been recommended by local community leaders who told us which books inspired them in their lives and work. Other selections are our favorites or are popular with you, our patrons (based on length of holds lists or number of checkouts), or have otherwise won acclaim.

This month we will be reading Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond, in which 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.

We have another session of this program happening at 3PM on May 8th.  To sign up for that discussion, please go to this link: https://www.dmpl.org/event/library-talk-poverty-iowa-87360 

Limited copies of the book will be available at the Central Library Pickup Window starting April 18.