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Matthew Desmond, "Poverty, By America"

After Words

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The Tension in the Book

I think a lot of us are shopping according to certain values, like environmentalism. I don't think poverty is going to be solved because I shop at this door in that one. But I think if enough of us did it, it builds a political will. It creates a new kind of common sense and it sends a strong message about how we want to invest from poverty as a nation.

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