We Can Abolish Poverty, Says Matt Desmond

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Matt Desmond: We don't want our fellow citizens to suffer, but are we willing to make personal sacrifices? If we do, says Matt, we won't just ease poverty, we can abolish poverty. And not only because it's the right thing morally, but because abolishing poverty would benefit all of us. Our streets would be safer, our kids' futures brighter, our country would be more democratic.

RUFUS GRISCOM: Could you share with us your broader mission and how your new book, “Poverty, by America,” supports that mission?

MATTHEW DESMOND: I want to end poverty. I want to be part of the movement that’s growing around the country not to treat it but to cure it, not to reduce it but to abolish it. And I say that because we can. We can, as a country, put an end to all this scarcity and deprivation in our midst.