In this week’s episode, we tackle Poverty, by America, a recent bestseller written by Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond. Though we found this book compelling in some ways, it fell short of the providing the sort of serious analysis of poverty, and solutions to poverty, that we think is needed.
Show Notes
Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell
Desmond’s New York Times article
Desmond’s 2018 paper
EPI study on poverty and wages
Explainer from the Census on the two main US poverty measures
The argument for using a relative poverty measure for the US
Credits
The podcast’s theme music was made by our youngest brother Tate.
Cover art by Arthur Santoro.
