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The Urbandale 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, 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. Copies of the book are available to check out at the front desk.
A 30-minute film screening of Raising the Floor will follow the discussion.
The Library Talk: Poverty in Iowa series is co-sponsored by UpLift Iowa.