What Can I Do to End Segregation?

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Matt Welch: We need policies that empower the poor. He says we can vote with our wallets, consult organizations like B-Core or Union Plus to curate lists of companies doing right by their workers and push for tax fairness. Welch: An America without poverty is better for us too. It's a more democratic society because folks who are poor often have hard time voting.

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.