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ABOLISH POVERTY: Matthew Desmond on How We Can Do It

The Next Big Idea

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Are You Ready to Be Infuriated?

Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton. His last book, Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City won a Pulitzer Prize. Desmond: "I want to be part of the movement that's growing around the country ... not to treat it, but to cure it" He says we can raise enough money to lift everyone out of poverty.

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