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Matthew Desmond Quotes

1979–1980 United States

Matthew Desmond (born 1979 or 1980) is an American sociologist. He is the Maurice P.

United States
Sociologists

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Tens of millions of Americans do not end up poor by a mistake of history or personal conduct. Poverty persists because some wish and will it to.

Those who have amassed the most power and capital bear the most responsibility for America's vast poverty: political elites, who have utterly failed low-income Americans over the past century; corporate bosses who have spent and schemed to prioritize profits over people; lobbyists blocking the will of the American people with their self-serving interests; property owners who have exiled the poor from entire cities and fueled the affordable housing crisis.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Matthew Desmond (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.