"Broke in America" Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty is an essentail read. 

Water. Food. Housing. The most basic and crucial needs for survival, yet 40 percent of people in the United States don't have the resources to get them. With key policy changes, we could eradicate poverty in this country within our lifetime—but we need to get started now.  The catastrophe of COVID-19, which is reducing countless people to desperation, makes this book especially urgent and necessary reading. 

Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox