Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it - sociologist Matthew Desmond
Desmond says that being poor is different in the US than in other rich countries. “We have so many resources. Our tolerance for poverty is very high, much higher than it is in other parts of the developed world’"
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One man's poverty is another man's profit?
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Discuss "Poverty, by America," by #MatthewDesmond with the Maryland Poor People's Campaign. We're meeting Monday evenings & daytime on Wednesdays through July 21. More details & Zoom registration at mdppc.org/book2025
Join the Maryland Poor People Campaign to discuss "Poverty, by America," by Matthew Desmond.
Discussions will be held Monday evenings and daytime on Wednesdays, starting, June 23.
More details & Zoom registration at mdppc.org/book2025
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Join the Maryland Poor People's Campaign to discuss "Poverty, by America" by Matthew Desmond.
Sessions will be held Mondays in the evening and earlier in the day on Wednesdays for each week—starting on Monday, June 16.
More details & Zoom registration at mdppc.org/book2025
#MatthewDesmond (Princeton University) in the #DailyShow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLN0YoErK0
You get the impression that #poverty is made and continued by design in the #USA. And there is almost no incentive for the #billionaires to end poverty at all, although they could very easily by just stopping #taxfraud or collecting the taxes that are already due today. 🤯
#Money flows to the super #rich (which pay less #taxes!) instead to the people in need.
The #AmericanDream is an illusion.
What a shit country. What a shit system.
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"Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it.
This is the thesis of the lauded sociologist Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, by America. The best seller is at once a careful exploration of poverty statistics; a deeply reported depiction of the lived experiences of the poor; an examination of the ways America’s wealthy exploit the masses; and a case for ending poverty. Desmond shows how the country’s employers, financial institutions, and landlords extract money from low-income families while rich families hoard opportunity for themselves. He also demonstrates how America’s safety-net programs are not just too stingy but poorly designed.
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Desmond is a professor at Princeton. His previous book—Evicted, about the low-income rental market in Milwaukee—won a Pulitzer Prize. We discussed how the rich came to win the War on Poverty and what’s necessary to end poverty.
This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity."
Listening to audiobook POVERTY, BY AMERICA (2023) - Matthew Desmond
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