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Poverty, the Housing Crisis and Lobster on Food Stamps w/ Matthew Desmond

Factually! with Adam Conover

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You Know, You Can Do Drugs in Your Home, Right?

"I used to smoke and drink, right? And my life and spend," he says. "In those years, I didn't necessarily manage money well because that's part of what being human is." He was able to make a life for himself despite doing those things; no one was sitting over his shoulder going, Hey, this is why you're poor, right? That's a very bizarre judgment".

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