About a third of the American workforce works for $15 an hour or less today. "I have experienced stress to the extent that it's made me physically unwell because of the amount of work I've put on myself," she says. The idea of working way out of poverty, really just being able to put in the hours to get ahead, is very different from putting in double what most Americans are doing.
Pulitzer Prize winning sociologist, professor at Princeton University and author of the book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond joins Adam this week to discuss the physical effects poverty has on the people living in it, the lack of a national conversation about the housing crisis, and how the "American Dream" story is hurting us.
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