How Poverty Taxes the Mind

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Adam Rohn: It's expensive to be poor, that you literally have to spend more on daily necessities. But there are so many other ways in which having being so strapped for money can force you to make those choices. So folks aren't poor just because they make worse decisions. They make worse decisions because they're poor. And the clear policy implication is like if you raise people's standards of living, you'll see returns on what they do with their behavior.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.