“I don’t think we have to live with all this poverty in America,” our founder Matthew Desmond told Jon Stewart on @thedailyshow.com Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/KoLN0YoErK0 - ThreadSky

evictionlab.bsky.social • 4 days ago

“I don’t think we have to live with all this poverty in America,” our founder Matthew Desmond told Jon Stewart on @thedailyshow.com

Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/KoLN0YoErK0

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glmary.bsky.social•2 days ago

How do you explain inequality in society?
"Social inequality refers to the unequal distribution of power, privilege, and resources among individuals and groups in a society."

feministesquire.bsky.social•4 days ago

Phenomenal interview!

sdc13.bsky.social•4 days ago

Downloaded audible book on @libro.fm this morning. Can not wait to begin listening.

shawnc1959.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bobby Kennedy was talking about this in 1968.

"[GDP] measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPgN_fSubKQ

mandilou22.bsky.social•4 days ago

Excellent interview - just watched and came here to follow. Can’t wait to get my hands on the book.

kay81.bsky.social•3 days ago

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social @jimmcgovernma.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov

kleinline.bsky.social•4 days ago

Good guest, excellent points. We need this kind of logic in governance...whenever we return to being an informed & reality-based society.

None of this should ever be partisan - it's good financial sense, at the very least.

prancingbee.bsky.social•4 days ago

Such an excellent interview! I'm going to check out his book and look into what I can do to help create change. My husband and I were dropped into poverty from medical/ disability issues. It can happen in an instant.

brendanmcnerney.bsky.social•4 days ago

Matthew Desmond did an excellent job, really great to see him on there. I am hoping it encourages many more to pick up Poverty, by America though their discussion covered a good amount of the most critical points in the book it seemed.

popesnarky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Doesn't look like he'd be the founder of the grifter sites, AddictingInfo and Being Liberal, or the various associated Facebook pages, but the real Matthew Desmond.

solitairechampion.bsky.social•4 days ago

Agreed, he did great. It inspired me to check out the book.

kdjs-1.bsky.social•4 days ago

if we simply collected all the taxes owed in a single year...
Poverty in the US is a choice - allowing those who already have so much to lie & cheat and harm those in need...
its a sin

esteban2271.bsky.social•4 days ago

Amazing. This should be what we talk about. 💙

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