It was a gift of a day. Wrapped in sunshine and high 70s, its contents waiting to be discovered and delighted in. Birdsong and tree buds and the occasional daffodil signaled something new on the horizon.
On Chicago’s South Side, inside the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice, hundreds of students, faculty and other interested parties gathered to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond discuss his new book, “Poverty, by America.”
“I do think there’s a hunger for something different in America,” Desmond told the crowd.
