Factually! with Adam Conover

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

Jun 19, 2019

01:13:49

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How Do You Write a Book?

04:25

The Impact of Higher Wages on Health and Well-Being

02:22

Is There a Meta Myth?

05:07

Introduction

2min

You're the Gator of the High.

4min

Eviction and the Affordable Housing Crisis

3min

What's Driving the Housing Crisis?

4min

I Don't Know What to Think About Shirena

2min

How Do You Write a Book?

4min

What I Learned From Your Report on Eviction in America?

3min

Public Housing

3min

Is Housing a Right?

3min

10.

You Know, I've Had a Pretty Rough Time of It.

5min

11.

How Homelessness Happens

3min

12.

The Basic Necessity of a Place to Live

3min

13.

Renter's Mobilization - Is That Really Happening?

5min

14.

The Impact of Higher Wages on Health and Well-Being

2min

15.

The Effect of Stress on Your Body

2min

16.

How Poverty Taxes the Mind

6min

17.

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

4min

18.

I Don't Believe That About Us, but We Believe That

2min

19.

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

3min

20.

Is There a Consciousness Change in the American Economy?

2min

21.

The GI Bill and the Middle Class

2min

22.

Shark Tank

4min

23.

Is There a Meta Myth?

5min

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.

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