Matthew Desmond (on poverty)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Desmond (Poverty, by America) is a sociologist and author. Matthew joins Armchair Expert to discuss why he became interested in studying poverty in America, how people are being priced out of their own neighborhoods, and what solutions he feels would help unhoused people the most. Matthew and Dax talk about why a wealthy country can have such a large wage gap, what metrics the government uses to define who an impoverished person is, and how some financial institutions are predatory towards people with less money. Matthew explains why people should change their outlook on paying taxes, how welfare dependency is not as common as people think, and what he thinks caused the mass amount of economic inflation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by a
0:06.1	modest mouse. Hi. You're not really a modest mouse mouse, but that is a great band
0:11.2	modest mouse. It is a great band.
0:13.0	I don't think I'm a modest.
0:16.0	Immodiced. It depends on the kind we're talking about.
0:20.0	Well, not in your style.
0:21.0	Not in my style.
0:22.0	Yeah. Me either, I'm in your style. Not in my style.
0:23.0	Yeah, me either.
0:24.0	I'm in a beautiful, gray,
0:27.0	Burberry sweater that my friend bought me.
0:30.0	My friend.
0:31.0	Oh, your friend has great taste. She has incredible taste and I am so grateful for her in
0:37.5	modesty in this department. It's such a nice sweater. It is. I love it. It to be softer.
0:43.0	Okay, today's guest, kind of an ironic setup.
0:47.0	Sh mindful actually.
0:49.0	Almost shameful.
0:50.0	No, you gotta keep it.
0:52.0	It's funny.
0:53.0	Matthew Desmond is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and sociologist.
0:58.0	His books include evicted poverty and profit in the American city,
1:02.0	the racial order, race in America, and his newest book that's out now that we are here to talk about today is
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