"We haven't supported the middle class. We have not had the active programs that created that middle class for over a generation now," he says. "A lot of folks that do go to college, even go to like a graduate school and get advanced degrees are left out of this bargain."
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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