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Matthew Desmond, "Poverty, By America"

After Words

CHAPTER

The Vision of Class Mixing

Matt Welch: My greatest passion in the book was your vision of class mixing. I think it's because the end of poverty is something that benefits all of us. An America without poverty is a freer America, he says. It's also safer and happier than one with more income inequality according to Welch. "It's not exactly about poverty. It's about beans and peppers and drums"

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