You Know, I've Worked Hard Stories, Right?

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"It's almost the, the Joseph Campbell, Ur myth of America," he says. "The folks that you write about are working just as hard as that." The people on shark tank don't get the same results because they didn't start out like everyone else in their family or society at a low point and so there is no social explanation for how they got to be where they are today.

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.