The Real Cause of Poverty with Matthew Desmond
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The Rise of Private Opulence in Public Poverty
Poverty line is $27,000 for a family of four. That's just a number that we set the poverty line. If you're below the poverty line, you are in a really desperate situation. And yet we continue to live these segregated lives. One key reason is that if you have this massive amount of racial and economic segregation, where if you have enough money, you start having this desire to pull away from the public.
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