As Pulitzer-prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond puts it, his book is about “how some lives are made small so that others may grow.”
, Desmond, currently a professor of sociology at Princeton, has sought to further his reach by taking on the subject of poverty throughout the United States.
Second, we hurt the poor by prioritizing the subsidization of affluence over the reduction of poverty in our tax and budget policies. The biggest beneficiaries of federal aid are the affluent, Desmond observes. The money they make from capital gains is taxed at a lower rate than wages. They work in jobs with employer-sponsored health insurance, which is not taxed. They benefit from mortgage-interest deductions because they can afford to buy a house.
How do we end these injustices? Desmond asks throughout his book. “I’m not calling for ‘redistribution.’ I’m calling for the rich to pay their taxes,” he insists. “I’m calling for a rebalancing of our social safety net. I’m calling for a time when America made bigger investments in our social welfare.”
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