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Matthew Desmond, "Poverty, By America"

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The Role of Personal Responsibility in Poverty

There really isn't anything in your book about personal responsibility, which is something you would hear a lot about if you were going around interviewing conservative poverty experts. There's nothing really about addiction. Opioids have killed a million people. Crime doesn't really factor in very much. I'd like us to look at our responsibility and how we might be complicit in all this poverty.

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