America Can Solve Poverty. We Just Don’t Want To – Mo News Interview

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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A provocative, new NY Times bestselling book alleges that keeping a certain population of Americans poor actually benefits the majority of citizens. And, it turns out that solving poverty is easier than we think it is. Mosheh talks to sociologist and author Matthew Desmond about his book, Poverty, By America. His analysis looking into why the richest country in the world has such widespread poverty finds in essence that, “I’m the problem, it’s me.” In today’s podcast, we dive into potential solutions for poverty, why consumers choices matter, and why Desmond is hopeful that COVID actually gave us a blueprint to solving the crisis. **Mo News Premium For Members-Only Instagram, Private Podcast: (Click To Join)** — Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award- winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Website: www.mo.news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Daily Newsletter: https://www.mo.news/newsletter Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@monews Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to another edition of the Mo News Podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Mosha Nunu.
0:08.0	Today we're doing a deep dive into poverty in America.
0:11.0	I'm speaking with Matt Desmond, he's a sociologist and professor at
0:13.7	Princeton University. He's the author of a New York Times bestseller called simply
0:17.2	poverty by America. We discuss his personal experience with poverty, what led him to be so interested in it and try to figure
0:24.9	out what's wrong in the richest country on earth and why we have such an issue with poverty.
0:31.2	We talk about some of the inaccurate things that have become sort of assumed in America
0:35.6	and why we have it wrong when it comes to poverty, including how many Americans benefit from poverty.
0:41.5	It's the sad truth behind our situation in again this richest
0:45.5	country in the world. So he did a fascinating deep dive. I think you'll find
0:49.6	this conversation a great entree to his book,
0:53.0	and we discuss why he thinks it's easier to solve poverty
0:56.4	than one might think.
0:57.8	We also get into why it's not just about government,
1:00.0	but consumers and how we can change things
1:02.4	as far as the companies that we support.
1:04.3	Before we get started here, a reminder to consider joining Mo News Premium for early access to
1:08.4	podcasts like this one, as well as extra content over on our private Instagram account for members only.
1:14.4	It's a way to support what we're doing here at Mo News,
1:16.7	support original reporting, independent journalism,
1:19.6	and frankly just support what we're doing on a day-to-day basis
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