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The Michael Steele Podcast

Imagining A Land Without Poverty: With Matthew Desmond

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Why is America stricken by poverty despite being the most prosperous democracy in the world? Michael Steele is joined by Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," and Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Matthew discusses his new book, “Poverty, By America," which looks at why America hasn't made more progress in ending poverty, how the pandemic reframed eviction and government response to poverty and how wealthy and middle class Americans perpetuate a system that keeps poor people poor.

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0:31.5

Why is there so much poverty in America today?

0:37.4

In your neighborhood, my neighborhood,

0:39.2

in the communities in which we live,

0:41.5

why do we drive by it, you know, roll up the window,

0:45.4

or think that we're doing something when we give out a little bit of pocket change

0:50.0

or buy someone a happy meal.

0:52.9

My guest today, Matthew Desmond, wrote a book

0:58.1

because he needed an answer to those questions.

1:00.8

And despite being the most prosperous democracy in the world,

1:05.5

we have by almost every measure the worst poverty in the world.

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