Matthew Desmond, a Princeton sociologist, is the author of a new book that explores why poverty remains at a higher level in the United States than many of its peer countries. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer joins Washington Post deputy business editor Damian Paletta to discuss “Poverty, by America” and why such hardship persists in the richest country in the world.



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