10 A recent book worth reading is Poverty Made in the USA, by American sociologist Matthew Desmond (Capitán Swing, 2024). It paints a well-documented portrait of the problem of poverty in the richest country in the world and proposes some quite imaginative possible solutions, although not always applicable to other places. But, in my opinion, the book's great virtue is its successful attempt to give visibility to a group as numerous as it is hidden: the poor.

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