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Matthew Desmond: The Privileged are Complicit in America’s Poverty Crisis | Amanpour and Company

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"The United States -- the richest country in the world -- has a higher rate of poverty than any other advanced democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond examines the dire situation in his new book, and he joins Michel Martin to explain why the problem persists.

Their conversation is part of Chasing the Dream, our going initiative about poverty, jobs, and economic opportunity in America."

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The New York Review of Books

The High Cost of Being Poor | Matthew Desmond

Three years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic struck the United States, and the economy sputtered in the direction of collapse.

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