Going Deep with Matthew Desmond on Fairness

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When my daughter was in high school, she read a Pulitzer prize winning book called Evicted and was blown away by how easy it is to become homeless in her country. Years later, I was at one of those thinking weekend festival things (Chautauqua) and listened to the Evicted author speak. Matthew Desmond gave the best talk I had ever heard in my life, and I have heard a lot. As soon as I had the chance, as his new book Poverty by America hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, I talked with him at my apartment in NYC about how America could be the place we all so want it to be. He is a rare mix of gentle and determined. Please listen, please share, for the good of all of us.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, I'm Kelly Corrigan and I'm wondering about what it
0:09.0	takes to make it in America today.
0:12.3	What combination of gumption and good luck and intervention combined to create a path
0:18.5	for more people to live more fulfilling lives?
0:22.5	That is the question of this 10-part series that I did with PBS and my guest today is Matthew
0:29.1	Desmond.
0:30.1	He teaches sociology at Princeton.
0:32.5	He won the Pulitzer for an incredible book called Evicted.
0:36.6	And he's out this year with a new book called Poverty by America.
0:41.0	He's also been listed by Politico as one of the 50 people across the country who is most
0:46.6	influencing the national political debate.
0:49.9	So join us for an enlightening conversation with Matthew Desmond.
0:54.5	We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:00.1	Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, I'm Kelly Corrigan.
1:18.0	As Americans, we have so much to be proud of.
1:21.6	Technical ingenuity nearly beyond measure.
1:24.8	Public initiative and achievement not to mention our crazy mission to stand as a model for
1:29.9	multi-racial democracy.
1:32.7	But we are also alone in this distinction, the side-by-side realities of record-breaking
1:38.4	wealth and record-breaking poverty.
1:41.6	Matthew Desmond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted and the number one New York
1:46.5	Times bestseller, Poverty by America.
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