His previous book— Evicted, about the low-income rental market in Milwaukee—won a Pulitzer Prize. We discussed how the rich came to win the War on Poverty and what’s necessary to end poverty.

Michael Harrington, author of the 1962 classic "The Other America: Poverty in the United States," is pictured at Harvard University in the 1980s. Nearly 40 years later, another high-profile book ...

Caro's most recent book, The Passage of Power, the fourth volume in his biography of Johnson, recounts the early weeks of the Johnson presidency, when he launched the war on poverty.

NEW YORK — Books about war, poverty and the rule of law are among the finalists for Lukas Prizes given for work that combines literary excellence, deep research and social consciousness. The ...

The war on poverty of the 1960s had many limits and challenges. Its means-tested programs were targeted only at the poorest of the poor, rather than being universal in scope, like Social Security.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty,” and since then, federal spending on anti-poverty initiatives has steadily ...

Margaret Talbot writes about “Poverty, by America,” a new book by Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted.” ...

The war on poverty of the 1960s had many limits and challenges. Its means-tested programs were targeted only at the poorest of the poor, rather than being universal in scope, like Social Security.

The fact that war and poverty do appear marks a certain advance over Olive Kitteridge —the recent books are deeper and feel more attuned to what makes people what they are.

[Annie Lowrey at The Atlantic] This older interview with Matthew Desmond is doing the rounds again, and I discovered it for the first time. If you haven't read his books Evicted, and Poverty, by ...