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Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it - sociologist Matthew Desmond
Desmond says that being poor is different in the US than in other rich countries. “We have so many resources. Our tolerance for poverty is very high, much higher than it is in other parts of the developed world’"
#ShitHoleCountryUSA #USpol #poverty #SocialJustice #US_fascism #economy #sociology #segregation #racism #MatthewDesmond
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Last chance! Discuss "Poverty by America," by #MatthewDesmond with the Maryland
#PoorPeoplesCampaign via Zoom:
Monday, July 21 @ 7 pm
or Wednesday, July 23 @ 11 am► mdppc.org/book2025
#MDPPC #PovertyByAmerica #EconomicSegregation #Integration #AffordableHousing
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"Corporate profits rise when labor costs fall," says #MatthewDesmond, author of #PovertyByAmerica. Join the #MDPPC for an in-depth discussion of #poverty and #inequality in America on Mondays at 7pm or Wednesdays at 11 am, through July 23.
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One man's poverty is another man's profit?
Join the #MDPPC to discuss #PovertyByAmerica by #MatthewDesmond via Zoom at 7pm Mondays or 11 am Wednesdays, through July 23. Details & registration at mdppc.org/book2025
#PovertyIsPolicy #EndPoverty #PovertyAbolitionists #EconomicJustice #MoralEconomy
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Discuss "Poverty, by America," by #MatthewDesmond with the Maryland Poor People's Campaign. We're meeting Monday evenings & daytime on Wednesdays through July 21. More details & Zoom registration at mdppc.org/book2025
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Join the Maryland Poor People Campaign to discuss "Poverty, by America," by Matthew Desmond.
Discussions will be held Monday evenings and daytime on Wednesdays, starting, June 23.
More details & Zoom registration at mdppc.org/book2025
#PovertyByAmerica #MatthewDesmond #MDPPC #Poverty #Inequality #Injustice
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Join the Maryland Poor People's Campaign to discuss "Poverty, by America" by Matthew Desmond.
Sessions will be held Mondays in the evening and earlier in the day on Wednesdays for each week—starting on Monday, June 16.
More details & Zoom registration at mdppc.org/book2025
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#MatthewDesmond (Princeton University) in the #DailyShow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLN0YoErK0You get the impression that #poverty is made and continued by design in the #USA. And there is almost no incentive for the #billionaires to end poverty at all, although they could very easily by just stopping #taxfraud or collecting the taxes that are already due today. 🤯
#Money flows to the super #rich (which pay less #taxes!) instead to the people in need.
The #AmericanDream is an illusion.
What a shit country. What a shit system.
#FoodStamps #SocialSecurity #Socialism #poor #taxtherich #Medicare #superrich #capitalism #Unions #PovertyByAmerica
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Interesting segment in this #YouTube #video by #Bloomberg with #author #MatthewDesmond on his #book, #PovertyByAmerica.
Matthew reiterates salient points regarding #poverty existing in the #US because, collectively, we want it to exist, and #capitalism creates and depends upon it for its existence.
His phrase "#ChicNihilism" reminds me of the "#RadicalChic" of the same kinds of people in the 60's; ultimately a disengagement of the privileged.
We can change #society.
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I just finished listening to Poverty By America by Matthew Desmond.
A damning explanation of how I benefit from the deep poverty of my fellow man.
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon I am buried in hardcovers and my Kindle is stuffed. I just started Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond last night. Gut punches. As good as Evicted which was excellent social justice writing. #PovertyByAmerica #MatthewDesmond
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#currentlyreading Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America.
for most of my followers this kind of stuff is “duh!” but it bears repeating:
“The passage of Prop 13 inspired a nationwide revo that led to Reagan's 1981 cutting spree. It was a white led revolt. … Massive tax cuts, which fundamentally reshaped the agendas of the nation's two major political parties and resulted in the rise of private fortunes alongside public poverty, were not simply a response to government overreach. They were a response to white people being ordered to share public goods with Black people.
The major accomplishments of the civil rights movement outlawed racial segregation in the public sector: … . En masse, whites responded to racial integration by withdrawing from public spaces, then from entire cities, taking their tax dollars with them. … in the wake of the civil rights era, most whites began voting according to their perceived racial interests rather than their economic ones.”
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NPR - #Princeton #sociologist #MatthewDesmond - if the top 1% of Americans paid the #taxes they #owed, it would raise $175 billion each year. "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of #poverty," the author says. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/21/1164275807/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond-inequality #PovertyinAmerica #Billionaires #FinancialSystem #TaxCode #IRS #Congress #regulations #economy #wealthy do not pay taxes
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A new look at #poverty and it is not nice!
“The new book by the sociologist and author of “Evicted” examines the persistence of want in the wealthy United States, finding that keeping some citizens poor serves the interests of many.”
#matthewdesmond
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/books/review/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond.html -
How America Manufactures Poverty
The sociologist Matthew Desmond identifies specific practices and policies that consign tens of millions to destitution.
#BookReview #MatthewDesmond #UnitedStates #poverty #welfare #capitalism #economy #inequality #labour #labor #policy #books #bookstodon
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/matthew-desmond-poverty-by-america-book-review