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URL:https://cc.fppl.org/events/illinois-libraries-present-poverty-a-discus
 sion-with-matthew-desmond/
SUMMARY:Illinois Libraries Present: Poverty: A Discussion with Matthew Desm
 ond
DESCRIPTION:Join us to close out our fourth season with bestselling author 
 Matthew Desmond in conversation with award-winning journalist\, Natalie Mo
 ore.\nDesmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and aut
 hor of the award-winning book\, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the Americ
 an City. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, Desmond wa
 s named one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing
  the national political debate” by Politico 50 in 2016. His research foc
 uses on poverty in the United States\, city life\, housing insecurity\, pu
 blic policy\, racial inequality\, and ethnography.\nNatalie Moore is an 
 award-winning journalist based in Chicago\, whose reporting tackles race\,
  housing\, economic development\, food injustice and violence. She is the 
 author of the acclaimed The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and America
 n Segregation and co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Ri
 se\, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang. Moore is the recipient of 
 Chicago Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award and a Studs Terkel Commu
 nity Media Award among many others. Her work has helped shift the way Chic
 agoans today think about segregation in the region.\nRegister at:  https:
 //bit.ly/ILP_MatthewDesmond]\nThis event is made possible by Illinois Libr
 aries Present (ILP)\, a statewide collaboration among public libraries off
 ering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illi
 nois State Library\, a department of the Office of Secretary of State\, us
 ing funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services\, 
 under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). \
 nILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility. To request accommodation
 s\, please email illinoislibrariespresent@gmail.com
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