Matthew Desmond has been awarded the 2018 Stowe Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice, awarded by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, for his 2016 book "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City." The book profiles the lives of eight families in Milwaukee. Desmond is a professor of sociology...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:40PM on February 20, 2018