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Library Talk: Poverty in Iowa - Special Book Discussion

Program Type:

Book Clubs

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Event Details

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 this special book discussion, 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.

Limited copies of the book will be available at the North Side Library starting May 27th. Registration required.

The Library Talk: Poverty in Iowa series is co-sponsored by UpLift Iowa. For more information about the series and about Uplift, go to dmpl.org/poverty.

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Accessibility

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