Evicted

Matthew Desmond 2016

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
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Our Take

Desmond embedded in Milwaukee's poorest neighborhoods and followed eight families facing eviction. The economy of poverty is designed to extract and it extracts without mercy. The epilogue data is the most depressing table you will read.

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