• America’s Poverty is by Design

  • Jul 12 2023
  • Length: 48 mins
  • Podcast

America’s Poverty is by Design

  • Summary

  • America is the richest country on earth, and yet we have the highest levels of poverty of any advanced democracy. Why is that? And what should we do about it? Matthew Desmond joins Ben and Khalil to discuss the rousing arguments of his new book Poverty, By America: we are all culpable for this problem, and it’s on us to fix it.

    Additional links:

    Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond

    Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

    Correction: Parole, Prison and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen

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