Jason DeParle is a reporter for the New York Times and has written extensively about efforts to address poverty. His book, American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Helen Bernstein Award from the New York City Library. He is a recipient of the George Polk Award and is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He wrote this book as an Emerson Fellow at the New America fellows program. A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century was published in 2019.
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