America is the richest country on earth, and yet we have the highest levels of poverty of any advanced democracy. Why is that? And what should we do about it? Matthew Desmond joins Ben and Khalil to discuss the rousing arguments of his new book Poverty, By America: we are all culpable for this problem, and it’s on us to fix it.

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Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Correction: Parole, Prison and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen

America is the richest country on earth, and yet we have the highest levels of poverty of any advanced democracy. Why is that? And what should we do about it? Matthew Desmond joins Ben and Khalil to discuss the rousing arguments of his new book Poverty, By America: we are all culpable for this problem, and it’s on us to fix it.
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<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675683/poverty-by-america-by-matthew-desmond/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675683/poverty-by-america-by-matthew-desmond/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1689188401308000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3_AOAXsLoX05GvAeoKczKm">Poverty, By America</a> by Matthew Desmond
<a href="https://evictedbook.com/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://evictedbook.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1689188401308000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3tXXDiNMcd-qxegSe1BS1X">Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City</a> by Matthew Desmond
<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250758811/correction" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250758811/correction&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1689188401308000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0zwW4Rvhra7MqzaiLzJewJ">Correction: Parole, Prison and the Possibility of Change</a> by Ben Austen

Some of My Best Friends Are… is a podcast hosted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago in the 1980s. Today a Harvard professor and an award-winning journalist, Khalil and Ben still go to each other to talk about their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. In Some of My Best Friends Are..., they invite listeners into their unfiltered conversations about growing up together in a deeply-divided country, and navigating that divide as it exists today.

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America’s Poverty is by Design

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