Poverty, Relative and Absolute

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

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🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Jonah is joined by Scott Winship – the director of Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and fresh off the heels of his position within Senator Mike Lee’s Social Capital Project. Jonah asks Scott about the persistence of poverty in American society, and what progress has been made both recently and over the long term. Then, they get into why some of the obstacles that have to be removed in order to lift poor people up are more intractable than others. In part, Scott thinks that these difficulties “show how we’re hardwired to think about these problems in economic terms rather than in terms of social bonds,” and that certain data may blind us when searching for the real issues. Show Notes: -Scott’s research at AEI -Richard Burkhauser on poverty in the 60s versus now -The Social Capital Project -Raj Chetty on people doing better than their parents -Mr. Piketty’s big book of Marxiness -Jonah and Peter Beinart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.1	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.4	Can I please have your attention
0:18.4	Thank you
0:27.4	Greetings to listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg close to the Redmond podcast brought to you by the dispatch dispatch media
0:33.3	Go to the dispatch.com to find all the good stuff plus the other things
0:37.3	Okay, so we have another first timer here hot off the heels of our
0:43.4	Wonka, Paloza with Ryan
0:45.4	We
0:47.4	Decided that we wanted to do I'm sorry with right hot right Han Salam not Ryan
0:54.6	We wanted to we wanted to go even deeper into
0:58.4	in Wonkary into Nurtory and there's really very few people more qualified for that
1:04.8	Then my now new colleague at the American Enterprise Institute the director of our poverty studies program and formally
1:11.2	With the social capital project at the Joint Economic Committee. I so far I'm getting all of this correct which is rare for me
1:19.2	and a
1:21.5	great human being and
1:23.5	Friend of mine Scott Winship welcome to the Redmond
1:27.6	Thanks for having me Jonah long long time listener first time guest
1:32.9	Well, we'll change that the second time guest fairly rapidly. I'm sure but
1:37.0	So
1:39.6	So just so we can sort of level set and tell people what you're about you
1:45.0	You work for
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