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What are Mike and Angela's favorite songs to cry to? Can upbeat music lift you out of a bad mood? And what is Angela going to sing the next time she does karaoke? SOURCES:Matthew Desmond, professor of sociology at Princeton University.Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University.Joshua Knobe, professor of philosophy, psychology, and linguistics at Yale University.Simon McCarthy-Jones, professor of psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin.Yael Millgram, senior lecturer of psychological sciences at Tel Aviv University.Stanley Milgram, 20th-century American social psychologist.Ruth Reichl, food writer.Laurie Santos, professor of psychology at Yale University.Barbara Tversky, professor emerita of psychology at Stanford University. RESOURCES:"On the Value of Sad Music," by Mario Attie-Picker, Tara Venkatesan, George E. Newman, and Joshua Knobe (The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2024)."The Reason People Listen to Sad Songs," by Oliver Whang (The New York Times, 2023)."Adele 30: The Psychology of Why Sad Songs Make Us Feel Good," by Simon McCarthy-Jones (The Conversation, 2021)."Why Do Depressed People Prefer Sad Music?" by Sunkyung Yoon, Edelyn Verona, Robert Schlauch, Sandra Schneider, and Jonathan Rottenberg (Emotion, 2020).Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (2016)."Sad as a Matter of Choice? Emotion-Regulation Goals in Depression," by Yael Millgram, Jutta Joormann, Jonathan D. Huppert, and Maya Tamir (Psychological Science, 2015)."Music and Emotion Through Time," by Michael Tilson Thomas (TED Talk, 2012).Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (2011). EXTRAS:Girl Power Sing-Along with Laurie Santos and Catherine Price, at the Black Squirrel Club in Philadelphia (September 28, 2024)."What Makes a Good Sense of Humor?" by No Stupid Questions (2024)."How Contagious Is Behavior? With Laurie Santos of 'The Happiness Lab' (Replay)," by No Stupid Questions (2023).

Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and the principal investigator at The Eviction Lab, a research group that published the first-ever dataset of evictions in America, going back to 2000.  His Pulitzer-Prize-winner book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City quickly made Desmond one of America's most important thinkers and activists. His new book, Poverty, By America, broadens the scope of his research, demonstrating how wealthy Americans keep poor people poor. On March 27, 2024, Matthew Desmond came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an on-stage conversation with Bernice Yeung, the managing editor of Berkeley Journalism's Investigative Reporting Program. Her first book, In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.

Would you be more adventurous if you had more structure? Do you multitask while brushing your teeth? And what would Mike's perfect brother Peter do?  SOURCES:David Brooks, opinion columnist for The New York Times.Colin Camerer, professor of economics at the California Institute of Technology.James Clear, writer.Mason Currey, author.David Goggins, ultra-endurance athlete and retired U.S. Navy SEAL.Jesse Itzler, entrepreneur and author.Katy Milkman, professor of operations, information and decisions at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and host of the Choiceology podcast.Aneesh Rai, professor of management and organization at the University of Maryland.Tony Robbins, author, motivational speaker, and life coach.Sydney Scott, professor of marketing at Washington University in St. Louis.Cass Sunstein, professor and founding director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School.Elanor Williams, professor of marketing at Washington University in St. Louis. RESOURCES:"A Field Experiment on Subgoal Framing to Boost Volunteering: The Trade-Off Between Goal Granularity and Flexibility," by Aneesh Rai, Marissa A. Sharif, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, and Angela L. Duckworth (Journal of Applied Psychology, 2023)."What's Next? Advances and Challenges in Understanding How Environmental Predictability Shapes the Development of Cognitive Control," by Yuko Munakata, Diego Placido, and Winnie Zhuang (Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2023)."A Neural Autopilot Theory of Habit: Evidence From Consumer Purchases and Social Media Use," by Colin Camerer, Yi Xin, and Clarice Zhao (Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2023)."In Goal Pursuit, I Think Flexibility Is the Best Choice for Me but Not for You," by Sydney E. Scott and Elanor F. Williams (Journal of Marketing Research, 2022).Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear (2018).Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (2016).Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet, by Jesse Itzler (2015)."The Good Order," by David Brooks (The New York Times, 2014).Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, by Mason Currey (2013).

What's the root cause of poverty in America? And how do we fix it? In this discussion, Matthew Desmond, renowned Princeton sociologist and author of "Poverty, by America," talks about why poverty persists in the U.S. with Marc-Andreas Muendler, economic professor at UC San Diego. Desmond argues we can end poverty through grassroots activism and a willingness to target systems that perpetuate it, like local zoning laws. Desmond was catapulted into the national spotlight as a leading authority on modern American poverty when his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” made its debut in 2016. His work has been supported by the Gates, Horowitz, Ford, JBP, MacArthur, and National Science, Russell Sage, and W.T. Grant Foundations, as well as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 39385]

What's the root cause of poverty in America? And how do we fix it? In this discussion, Matthew Desmond, renowned Princeton sociologist and author of "Poverty, by America," talks about why poverty persists in the U.S. with Marc-Andreas Muendler, economic professor at UC San Diego. Desmond argues we can end poverty through grassroots activism and a willingness to target systems that perpetuate it, like local zoning laws. Desmond was catapulted into the national spotlight as a leading authority on modern American poverty when his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” made its debut in 2016. His work has been supported by the Gates, Horowitz, Ford, JBP, MacArthur, and National Science, Russell Sage, and W.T. Grant Foundations, as well as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 39385]

VTDigger is re-releasing some of our favorite interviews of the past decade to mark the 10th anniversary of The Vermont Conversation. This episode with Matthew Desmond was originally published in April 2023.Why does the U.S. — the richest country in the world — have the most poverty of any advanced democracy? Why are homeless encampments popping up from Seattle to Burlington?The answer is that, knowingly or unknowingly, many of us benefit from keeping poor people poor.That is the argument made by Matthew Desmond in his bestselling new book, “Poverty, by America.” Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2016 book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," which was named by Book Riot as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the last century. He is a professor of sociology at Princeton University, a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, and was named by Politico in 2016 as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”He argues that regulations ranging from zoning to environmental laws are being used to block affordable housing, a key factor that is driving the homeless crisis. He says that this problem is often especially acute in communities known for their otherwise progressive politics. Low wages are kept low for the benefit of the more affluent.“In most residential land in America, it's illegal to build anything except a single detached family home,” Desmond told The Vermont Conversation. “That little regulation buried inside of our zoning codes really means that the only place poor families can live are neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage, concentrated poverty, and that creates a level of disadvantage of a whole other order. I think that we need to think about our role and our complicity in maintaining those walls around our communities.”Desmond intends his work to be “a call to action. It means that we need to get our tails down to that zoning board meeting on a Thursday night at eight o'clock and stand up and say, Look, I refuse to be a segregationist. I refuse to deny other kids opportunities my kids receive living here. Let's build [affordable housing].”Matthew Desmond's work is grounded in his own experience growing up in poverty. He started studying housing, poverty, and eviction in 2008, when he lived among poor tenants and their landlords in Milwaukee. He now directs the Eviction Lab at Princeton, and is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, where “Poverty, By America” was recently excerpted.Desmond wants to inspire a new abolitionist movement. “Poverty abolitionists view poverty not as a minor social issue or an inevitability, but as an abomination,” he said. “It shares with other abolitionist movements — the movement to abolish slavery [and] prisons, for example — the recognition, the conviction, that if my gain comes at someone else's loss, that's corrupting in a way." "A poverty abolitionist divests from exploitation even if it benefits us. We try to shop and invest in solidarity with poor workers," he said. "We want a government that has a balanced and sensible welfare state, a government that does much more to fight poverty than to alleviate the tax burdens of the affluent. And we are for integrated communities and open, inclusive neighborhoods.”Poverty abolitionism “is a political mission,” said Desmond, “but it's also a per

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Every boomer was gutted and then rocked by the tragedy of JFK's assassination followed by the joy of The Beatles' arrival at the airport named in his honor. Both topics continue to resonate. Today on the show, broadcasting pioneer and JFK assassination historian John Barbour joins us to discuss his latest film, John Barbour & William Shakespeare's Last Word On The Murder of JFK. And Breakfast With The Beatles Host Chris Carter is with us to talk about his live appearances and The Beatles' return to the charts!Emmy Winning writer/host/comedian/director John Barbour has been studying JFK's assassination since he first picked up Mark Lane's book, Rush To Judgement. John has extensively interviewed New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison, who prosecuted alleged conspirator Clay Shaw and inspired Oliver Stone's groundbreaking film JFK. John's richly researched assassination documentaries soon followed. His third will be screened on November 22nd, the 60th anniversary of the assassination, at the Laemmle Encino Town Center.Breakfast With The Beatles host Chris Carter is a founding member of the 80s alternative band Dramarama, known for the iconic 1986 single, Anything, Anything (I'll Give You). He joins us to talk Beatles. With our attention now so diversified there will never be another band as popular, inspiring and influential. Chris is celebrating 40 years of broadcasting BWTB (now available five days a week on Sirius XM and Sundays on KLOS) with live broadcast events around Los Angeles. Chris shares his playlist programming process and discusses the challenges of doing justice to the most well known foursome in the world and their devoted fans. You can test your own Beatles knowledge as Chris reveals fascinating facts plus his insights into the relationships between the bandmates, his thoughts on what it was like to become world famous while still so young, and why the Beatles have fans of every age from every generation. And Chris shares intriguing background on the creation of the new hit song, Now and Then. We also take a tangential trip into music docs (including Chris's Rodney Bingenheimer film, Mayor of the Sunset Strip).In recommendations, Fritz is offering Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Mathew Desmond and Weezy is watching (after having read!) Lessons in Chemistry on Apple TV+.Path Points of Interest:John BarbourJohn Barbour on WikipediaJohn Barbour's & William Shakespeare's Last Word on The Murder of JFK at The Laemmle Town Center 5 in EncinoBreakfast with the BeatlesChris Carter on WikipediaBreakfast with The Beatles on FacebookBreakfast with The Beatles on InstagramMayor of the Sunset StripDramarama on It's FritzLessons in Chemistry on Apple TVEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Mathew Desmond

In Episode 126 of Book Talk, Etc. Tina and Renee share their recent nonfiction reads. They also share what they've been loving lately, their latest reads, and have book talk about nonfiction books they've added to their tbr's. If you enjoy this episode, be sure to FOLLOW /SUBSCRIBE on your podcast app so you never miss an episode!**If you enjoy our commercial free podcast please consider supporting us on Patreon!  You get access to our exclusive Audiobook Guide and we have great bonus episodes including: Books we DNFed, What's in the Mailbag, + Criminally Booked! Plus, we host fun Zoom events like Mood Reader Happy Hour and Book Talk Book Club, a private Facebook group &  DISCORD where you can interact with other patrons all for just $5 a month!Loving Latelys5:24 Adam Ragusea on YouTube (T) 7:12 Rechargeable Flashlight (R) Latest Reads10:44 Nana | Brandon Massey (T) 13:50 Keep Moving | Maggie Smith (R)

In the words of French writer Antoine de Saint Exupéry, "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."   In other words, cast a vision of what could be. That's exactly what Dr. Matthew Desmond is doing in his latest book, “Poverty, by America,” because the end of poverty, he says, is possible. Dr. Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. He's the author of four books, including “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. His latest book, already a #1 New York Times Bestseller, reimagines the debate on poverty, provocatively challenging all of us that the reason it persists in America is because so many of us benefit from it. As he writes, “some lives are made small so that others may grow.” But we can end poverty, he argues, and each one of us can become a poverty abolitionist. EPISODE SHOWNOTES: Read more. BE AFFIRMED. Get the Good Words email series. WHAT'S YOUR CAUSE? Take our quiz. STUDY SCRIPTURE. Get inside the collection. BE INSPIRED. Follow us on Instagram. FIGHT FOR GOOD. Give to The Salvation Army.

The United States is both the richest country on Earth, and yet beset with a crushing poverty that saddles too many Americans. Dr. Matthew Desmond is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and sociologist who says the reality of American poverty is sustained by those who benefit from it.    ​​Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and joined the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2010. He is the author of four books, including “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. Desmond leads The Eviction Lab, focusing his research on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why?” That's the question that underscores Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond's new book, “Poverty, by America.” America is a country that purports equality as one of its highest values. Economic opportunity and the long touted American dream have driven millions to emigrate and settle here for centuries. In reality, however, gross economic inequality undergirds every facet of American life: education, the criminal legal system, health care, and housing. Affordable housing is foundational to American life. Because America is rife with poverty, it's also rife with housing inequality. This is Desmond's focus of study. Desmond's work at Princeton University's “Eviction Lab” and his 2016 book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” continue to shape the conversation about housing and poverty today. His new book takes his exploration one step further, seeking to examine and address the roots and responses to housing insecurity and its threat to American life. Today, we are running a conversation between Desmond and the ACLU's Sandra Park, senior staff attorney for the Women's Rights Project, who also works on these issues. Together, they'll break down the complexities of American poverty and how poverty as a societal force threatens the accessibility of our civil rights and civil liberties.

Why do we as a society keep building more and more housing for people who already have the most options, all the while we are forcing people who most need housing to scramble amidst shortage? How do we not just understand what is happening, but also make something better? Jimmy Wright and Michael Hall were motivated by their Christian faith to do just that via their business Launch Capital. Listen in to get inspired by their creative and hopeful work. RSVP here for the Washington DC live Good Faith recording on 9/5/23: Curtis will talk with AEI's Yuval Levin on Institutions and Anxiety. The event will be held in the AEI Auditorium at 1789 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036   Matthew 5:9 Fellowship: Join with other pastors and Christian leaders seeking a way out of our political division.   George Fox University: Check out the offerings of one of the premier Christian universities in the country.   Learn more about Launch Capital and ways to invest in their model   Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City and Poverty, by America (both by Matthew Desmond)   Learn about the YIMBY (Yes, In My BackYard) movement

In this episode of Reviving Virtue, we delve into a profound discussion with Benjamin Studebaker, author of 'The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy, the Way Is Shut.' The conversation explores the intricate class schema of workers, professionals, and employers, and the antagonism between these classes. Studebaker introduces the concept of 'rump professionals' and 'fallen professionals,' shedding light on the diminishing value of university degrees and the resulting frustrations. The discussion also highlights the role of resentment in politics, and the impact of voter turnout on the political landscape.The episode further delves into the complexities of the American economic system and the growing resentment among different classes of society. Studebaker emphasizes the need for local narratives that resonate with people across the country and the challenges of the international tax and trade system. The role of fear in political participation is also discussed, offering insights into the dynamics of contemporary politics. The episode concludes with a thought-provoking question: "What if we're wrong?" offering a sobering reflection on the potential consequences of our current trajectory.Topics discussed: The state of American democracy The role of local narratives in politics The impact of the international tax and trade system The housing market and its economic implications The role of resentment in politics The diminishing returns of education The concept of 'rump professionals' and 'fallen professionals' The impact of voter turnout and participation on politics The role of fear in political participation The question of being wrong and its implicationsBook recommendations: “The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy - The Way Is Shut” by Benjamin Studebaker https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28210-2 “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond https://bookshop.org/a/94644/9780553447453 "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty. https://bookshop.org/a/94644/9780674979857Further Info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reviving_Virtue Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/RevivingVirtue Bookshop page: https://bookshop.org/shop/RevivingVirtue Contact: revivingvirtue@gmail.com Music by Jeffrey Anthony

In this episode Libreria welcomes Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Fellow and esteemed sociologist, Matthew Desmond. Matthew is the author of Poverty, by America, and Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Libreria wishes to thank Allen Lane publishers of the Penguin Random House group for the opportunity to host a live discussion with Matthew Desmond at Libreria bookshop.

This week, Soul of the Nation welcomes Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton University whose research focuses on poverty in America. He is the author of four books, including “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” which won the Pulitzer Prize. Desmond's new bestselling book is called “Poverty, By America.” In this episode, Desmond explains why the United States has more poverty than any other advanced democracy, calls the Republicans' plan to reduce federal spending by cutting poverty programs "sinful and shameful," and offers five ways we can all become "poverty abolitionists." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Happy Cinco de Mayo! On today's "Best-of" show, some recent favorites: As part of a year-long series on ways of improving U.S. democracy, Danielle Allen, Washington Post contributing columnist, a political theorist at Harvard University, where she is James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics and the author of Justice by Means of Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2023), proposes expanding the number of members of the House of Representatives, currently capped at 435. Peter Grinspoon, MD, instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and author of Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Expert Untangles the Truth About Marijuana (Prometheus, 2023), discusses how to use cannabis responsibly and the positive and negative effects the drug can have on someone's health. Matthew Desmond, sociology professor at Princeton University, 2015 MacArthur fellow, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown, 2016) and his latest, Poverty, by America (Crown, 2023), draws on research and reporting to make the case that poverty persists in the U.S. (at higher levels than in other advanced economies) because affluent Americans benefit from it. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, a host of the StarTalk Radio podcasts, discusses his book Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Henry Holt, 2022), a meditation on political and cultural polarization informed by a view "from above." Joy Harjo, former U.S. Poet Laureate, discusses a new a picture book, Remember (Random House Studio, 2023), adapted from her poem. The book, illustrated by Caldecott medalist Michaela Goade invites young readers to reflect on the world around them.   These interviews were lightly edited for time and clarity; the original web versions are available here:  Making the House More Representative (Mar 1, 2023) Cannabis Use and Personal Health (Feb 10, 2023) Set Up to Be Poor (Mar 27, 2023) Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmic Perspectives on Humanity (Dec 6, 2022) Former US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (Mar 22, 2023)

Why does the U.S. — the richest country in the world — have the most poverty of any advanced democracy? Why are homeless encampments popping up from Seattle to Burlington?The answer is that, knowingly or unknowingly, many of us benefit from keeping poor people poor.That is the argument made by Matthew Desmond in his bestselling new book, “Poverty, by America.” Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2016 book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," which was named by Book Riot as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the last century. He is a professor of sociology at Princeton University, a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, and was named by Politico in 2016 as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”He argues that regulations ranging from zoning to environmental laws are being used to block affordable housing, a key factor that is driving the homeless crisis. He says that this problem is often especially acute in communities known for their otherwise progressive politics. Low wages are kept low for the benefit of the more affluent.“In most residential land in America, it's illegal to build anything except a single detached family home,” Desmond told The Vermont Conversation. “That little regulation buried inside of our zoning codes really means that the only place poor families can live are neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage, concentrated poverty, and that creates a level of disadvantage of a whole other order. I think that we need to think about our role and our complicity in maintaining those walls around our communities.”Desmond intends his work to be “a call to action. It means that we need to get our tails down to that zoning board meeting on a Thursday night at eight o'clock and stand up and say, Look, I refuse to be a segregationist. I refuse to deny other kids opportunities my kids receive living here. Let's build [affordable housing].”Matthew Desmond's work is grounded in his own experience growing up in poverty. He started studying housing, poverty, and eviction in 2008, when he lived among poor tenants and their landlords in Milwaukee. He now directs the Eviction Lab at Princeton, and is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, where “Poverty, By America” was recently excerpted.Desmond wants to inspire a new abolitionist movement. “Poverty abolitionists view poverty not as a minor social issue or an inevitability, but as an abomination,” he said. “It shares with other abolitionist movements -- the movement to abolish slavery [and] prisons, for example -- the recognition, the conviction, that if my gain comes at someone else's loss, that's corrupting in a way." "A poverty abolitionist divests from exploitation even if it benefits us. We try to shop and invest in solidarity with poor workers," he said. "We want a government that has a balanced and sensible welfare state, a government that does much more to fight poverty than to alleviate the tax burdens of the affluent. And we are for integrated communities and open, inclusive neighborhoods.”Poverty abolitionism “is a political mission,” said Desmond, “but it's also a personal stance.”

This is an excerpt from the episode "Imagining A Land Without Poverty: With Matthew Desmond."Michael Steele is joined by Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," and Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Matthew discusses his new book, “Poverty, By America," which looks at why America hasn't made more progress in ending poverty, how the pandemic reframed eviction and government response to poverty and how wealthy and middle class Americans perpetuate a system that keeps poor people poor.If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to leave a review or tell a friend!Check out the book here:https://www.amazon.com/Poverty-America-Matthew-Desmond/dp/0593239911Join the movement to end poverty: https://endpovertyusa.org/Follow Matthew Desmond @just_shelterFollow Michael @MichaelSteeleFollow the Podcast @steele_podcast

Today, more than 37 million Americans live in poverty. The problem has been addressed countless times since the nation's founding, but it persists, and for the poorest among us, it gets worse. America has not been able to find its way to a sustainable solution, because most of its citizens see the problem of poverty from a distance, through a distorted lens. So in 2016, we presented "Busted: America's Poverty Myths," a series exploring how our understanding of poverty is shaped not by facts, but by private presumptions, media narratives, and the tales of the American Dream. This week we're revisiting part of that series.  1. Matthew Desmond [@just_shelter], author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" and the new book "Poverty, by America," on the myriad factors that perpetuate wealth inequality and Jack Frech [@FrechJack], former Athens County Ohio Welfare Director, on how the media's short attention span for covering inequality stymies our discourse around poverty. Listen. 2. Jill Lepore, historian and staff writer for the New Yorker, on the long history of America's beloved "rags to riches" narrative and Natasha Boyer, a Ohio woman whose eviction was initially prevented thanks to a generous surprise from strangers, on the reality of living in poverty and the limitations of "random acts of kindness." Listen. 3. Brooke considers the myth of meritocracy and how it obscures the reality: that one's economic success is more due to luck than motivation. Listen. You can find all 5 episodes of the series on our website.   

Today, more than 37 million Americans live in poverty. The problem has been addressed countless times since the nation's founding, but it persists, and for the poorest among us, it gets worse. America has not been able to find its way to a sustainable solution, because most of its citizens see the problem of poverty from a distance, through a distorted lens. So in 2016, we presented "Busted: America's Poverty Myths," a series exploring how our understanding of poverty is shaped not by facts, but by private presumptions, media narratives, and the tales of the American Dream. This week we're revisiting part of that series.  1. Matthew Desmond [@just_shelter], author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" and the new book "Poverty, by America," on the myriad factors that perpetuate wealth inequality and Jack Frech [@FrechJack], former Athens County Ohio Welfare Director, on how the media's short attention span for covering inequality stymies our discourse around poverty. Listen. 2. Jill Lepore, historian and staff writer for the New Yorker, on the long history of America's beloved "rags to riches" narrative and Natasha Boyer, a Ohio woman whose eviction was initially prevented thanks to a generous surprise from strangers, on the reality of living in poverty and the limitations of "random acts of kindness." Listen. 3. Brooke considers the myth of meritocracy and how it obscures the reality: that one's economic success is more due to luck than motivation. Listen. You can find all 5 episodes of the series on our website.   

Why is America stricken by poverty despite being the most prosperous democracy in the world? Michael Steele is joined by Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," and Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Matthew discusses his new book, “Poverty, By America," which looks at why America hasn't made more progress in ending poverty, how the pandemic reframed eviction and government response to poverty and how wealthy and middle class Americans perpetuate a system that keeps poor people poor. If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to leave a review or tell a friend!Check out the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Poverty-America-Matthew-Desmond/dp/0593239911Join the movement to end poverty: https://endpovertyusa.org/Follow Matthew Desmond @just_shelterFollow Michael @MichaelSteeleFollow the Podcast @steele_podcast

Matthew Desmond, sociology professor at Princeton University, 2015 MacArthur fellow, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown, 2016) and his latest, Poverty, by America (Crown, 2023), draws on research and reporting to make the case that poverty persists in the U.S. (at higher levels than in other advanced economies) because affluent Americans benefit from it.

The statistics on poverty in the U.S. are shocking and shameful: one in 9 Americans lives in poverty and one in 18 lives in “deep” poverty, defined in 2020 as annual income below roughly $13,000 for a family of four. More than a million public schoolchildren are homeless; more than 2 million Americans live in homes without running water or toilets. In his new book, "Poverty, by America", Matthew Desmond, who won a Pulitzer for his searing book on eviction, strives to figure out why there is so much poverty in the richest nation in the world — and what can be done to eliminate it. The responsibility, he writes, is all of ours: beyond policies and political movements, “it will also require that each of us, in our own way, become poverty abolitionists, unwinding ourselves from our neighbors' deprivation and refusing to live as unwitting enemies of the poor.” Desmond joins Forum to tell us how. Related link: The Eviction Lab Guests: Matthew Desmond, professor of sociology and director of The Eviction Lab, Princeton University; author, "Poverty, by America," and Pulitzer Prize winner "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City"

Today, Rabbi Joshua shares the wisdom and thoughts of Matthew Desmond, Professor of Sociology at Princeton, who has a new book called Poverty, By America. His previous book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, won the Pulitzer Prize. Learn about the billions of dollars collected each year from the poorest Americans by the fees and interest rates they get charged. The "War on Poverty" has been an abysmal failure, but there are some basic solutions to finally winning, and ending systemic poverty in our country.Learn more about Professor Desmond and his books:https://matthewdesmondbooks.comLearn about FID's Eviction Prevention and Rental Assistance Program:https://friendsindeedpas.org/programs/eviction-prevention-and-rental-assistance/

“Look at all the advances we've made in the last 50 years, look at the way that culture and medicine and technology and science have advanced since the Beatles broke up, since we were involved in Vietnam, but the poverty rate has been incredibly stubbornly persistent and I think it's rather shameful for the richest country in the history of the world.” Reading Matthew Desmond's books will make you smarter­, break your heart, make you mad, and push you to think differently about poverty — all in the same moment. Poverty, by America is his follow-up to his landmark book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Desmond joins us on the show to talk about going where the data takes him, the human cost of poverty, the gig economy, writing in community, what a post-poverty would could look like, and much more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer.   Featured Books: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond   Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).

In this episode of Rockford Reading Daily we recap the book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond.

In this episode of Rockford Reading Daily, we begin a journey through a new book entitled Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by author Matthew Desmond. This book will bring us to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where we will follow the lives of multiple families dealing with exploitative housing market in the United States of America.

“We can't have a conversation about affordable housing without having a conversation about landlord profit.” If you were mad about landlords before, just wait until you listen to this conversation. The mainstream narrative on affordable housing has revolved largely around public housing, but a glaring absence is a much larger demographic: low-income renters. To close out our season, we talked with Maya Dukmasova, former Chicago Reader reporter, current senior reporter at Injustice Watch, about Matthew Desmond's book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Maya brilliantly breaks down Desmond's objective that eviction is not just a symptom of poverty, but a cause of poverty, and her own reporting on the eviction crisis in Chicago. See our key questions from this episode and transcript at thelitreview.org.

2022年3月25日，我和界面文化记者林子人进行了一场题为“我们对‘何为贫穷'的偏见”的在线对谈，在【世纪文景】出版的新书《看不见的孩子：美国儿童贫困的代价》的基础上，讨论了美国的贫困问题与福利政策、及其对中国的启示。这场对谈本拟在【陆家嘴读书会】线下进行，由于上海的疫情封控而临时改到线上；小区封控期间网络信号不佳，对录音质量有较大影响，还请听众朋友们包涵。对谈的速记稿见《区分“谁值得救助”的危险是什么？》；B站上有视频回放。再次鸣谢Emma（播客：“好运签”）帮助修缮和剪辑录音。 对谈中提到的一些书和文章： Daniel Stedman Jones (2012), Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics Matthew Desmond (2016), Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 林子人，《从渴望闲暇到鄙视懒惰，倡导加班的工作伦理是怎样形成的？》 林垚，《种族隔离阴霾下的罗斯福新政》 林垚，《司法种族主义、警察暴力与抗议中的暴力》 林垚，《多重身份与歧视的交叉性》

The week the Real Friends discuss their first listener request, the continuation of the Ready Player 1 saga, Ready Player 2 by Ernest Cline. The hunt is on once again and we are logging back into the OASIS. The Real Friends one sentence summary of Ready Player 2: Mary Paige: This one hurt my brain. Erica: Ready Player One, again! Courtney: Seriously, someone play D&D with me before my head explodes. Here's what's next: 9/28: The One by John Marrs 10/12: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 10/26: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Eviction is rarely an isolated incident unique to an individual who doesn't know how to budget. Matthew Desmond sheds light on this reality and shows us there's an epidemic of evictions due to a structural problem that's baked into our system. Get Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond here (affiliate link):https://bookshop.org/a/54551/9780553447453Subscribe to the podcast for more books!https://bookwormpod.com/subscribe

Another of our smart friends, Josh Roberts from The Wisconsin Credit Union League, joins Ben and Sue to talk about the power of planning, no matter how large or small your organization is. They dissect the process from start to finish, share tips, and demonstrate that they're exactly the kind of people that get really jazzed about strategic planning. Awesome things to Share: Josh's Recommendations-(Book links to Amazon but also please consider supporting your local bookseller..) - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew DesmondDecolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance - Edgar Villanueva - The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power - Deirdre MaskThe Hidden Brain PodcastBagman: The Podcast Sue's Recommendation (she used to be a trainer, did she mention that? ;) ) CUNA: Creating Member Loyalty

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: attempting to help someone DNF and a tiny reading helper Current Reads: murder mermaids and historical fiction and hilarious non-fiction and a bookish field trip Deep Dive: streamlining your TBR, how to cull and narrow the field Book Presses: putting a few items back on your TBR As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . Intro: 1:20 - 10 Things to Tell You podcast w/ Meredith and Kaytee 2:09 - Currently Reading Patreon 3:29 - Fabled Bookstore  3:49 - Currently Reading Instagram 4:15 - Currently Reading Episode 24 w/Laura Tremaine 4:17 - Currently Reading Episode 25 w/Gretchen Rubin Bookish Moments: 5:29 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Current Reads: 8:17 - The Sherlockian by Graham Moore (Meredith) 9:52 - The Baker Street Irregulars 11:13 - The Holdout by Graham Moore  11:58 - How to be Black by Baratunde Thurston (Kaytee) 16:12 - Adventures in Eden: An Intimate Tour of the Private Gardens of Europe by Carolyn Mullet (Meredith) 19:28 - The Minders by John Marrs (Kaytee)  19:31 - The One by John Marrs  19:56 - The Passengers by John Marrs 22:27 - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (Meredith) 27:18 - Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis (Kaytee) 29:21 - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips Deep Dive - Streamlining your TBR: 31:00 - Episode 12 of season one 32:48 - Goodreads 37:00 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 40:09 - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo  40:50 - StoryGraph  Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands: 45:15 - Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase (Meredith) 48:07 - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Kaytee) 48:15 - Season 3, Episode 28: All the Buddy Reads + Genre Convincers 49:06 - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast

Leaders model behavior and inspire others to emulate them in their personal lives and on a bigger scale. Just as we have a choice to do the right thing in our personal lives, business leaders have that choice at work. Many strive to be people of good character in all aspects of their lives. But, what does it really mean to be a person of good character? Or, from a business perspective, a company of character? If character is the critical component of ethical leadership, how do we cultivate it in ourselves and in our organizations? In this episode, Gautam Mukunda speaks with the Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point and Soldier’s Medal recipient, Col. Everett Spain and the legendary former CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi about how today’s leaders can model courage to do the right thing. “The character of a corporation is not the personality. The character of a corporation is the integrity and morality of the company. How much does the company believe in the betterment of society? How much does the company believe it cannot succeed at the expense of society? That is the true character of a corporation. I don't want us to lose sight of that.” — Indra Nooyi Follow @GMukunda on Twitter   Books Referenced: The Arc of Ambition, by James A. Champy and Nitin Nohria 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything, by Mauro F. Guillén Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams, by Sam Walker Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, by Marshall Rosenberg The Colored Cadet At West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy, by Henry Ossian Flipper   Guest Info: Colonel Everett Spain is a Professor, USMA, and the 7th Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point. Everett has served with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq, V Corps in Europe, 1st Infantry Division in Kosovo, Multi-National Force-Iraq, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, and as a White House Fellow under the Bush and Obama Administrations. A native of Pensacola, Florida, Everett received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from West Point, a Master of Business Administration from Duke’s Fuqua School, and a Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He actively researches and writes about talent management. Additionally, he serves as a senior advisor to the Army Talent Management Task Force, is the president of the Harvard Veterans Alumni Organization 501(c)(3), and volunteers as a Holocaust Legacy Partner. Everett and his spouse Julia live at West Point and enjoy raising their four children, including a West Point cadet, a college freshman enrolled in Army ROTC, and two high school sophomores.   Indra Nooyi is the former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo (2006-2019); a Fortune 50 company with operations in over 180 countries. In this role, Mrs. Nooyi was the chief architect of Performance with Purpose, PepsiCo’s pledge to do what’s right for the business by being responsive to the needs of the world around us. As part of Performance with Purpose, PepsiCo was focused on delivering sustained growth by making more nutritious products, limiting its environmental footprint and protecting the planet, and empowering its associates and people in the communities it serves. During her tenure, PepsiCo grew net revenue by more than 80%, and PepsiCo’s total shareholder return was 162%. Before joining PepsiCo in 1994 Mrs. Nooyi held senior positions at The Boston Consulting Group, Motorola, and Asea Brown Boveri. Currently, Mrs. Nooyi is a member of the board of Amazon and sits on the Audit Committee. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Memorial Sloan Kettering, she is a member of the International Advisory Council of Temasek, an independent director of the International Cricket Council, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is also a Dean’s Advisory Council member at MIT’s School of Engineering and a member of the MIT Corporation. Additionally, she is the Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership at West Point. Mrs. Nooyi has received many prizes, accolades, and honorary degrees over the years. In 2007, the Government of India awarded her the Padma Bhushan, the country’s 3rd highest civilian honor. In 2007, she was named an “Outstanding American by choice” by the U.S. State Department. In 2019, her portrait was inducted into the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. She holds a B.S. from Madras Christian College, an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, and a Master of Public and Private Management from Yale University. Mrs. Nooyi is married and has two daughters.

  Matthew Desmond’s acclaimed book, ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’ drew attention to the eviction crisis in America.  Estimates suggest upwards of 900,000 renters were being evicted every year in America.  And that was before the pandemic forced a policy change putting a moratorium on evictions.  Without it, those numbers would have … Continue reading EP 420 America’s Eviction Crisis and Tenants’ Rights

Anna Kathryn Word, Chief Development Officer at MIFA, who talks about the organization's mission and programs to support the independence of vulnerable seniors and families in crisis, how the organization continues to respond to the changing needs of our community and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and ways to get involved, including their upcoming Our City, Our Story 2020 to Focus on Eviction virtual event on October 7, 2020 at noon. The event features Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," Matthew Desmond, along with local experts. MIFA's senior programs are designed to promote independence, health, companionship, and dignity. Hot nutritious meals for home-bound elderly and seniors at congregate nutrition sites, and companionship allow them to continue living in their homes, while advocacy continues to support them when the move to care communities.Learn more by visiting https://community.mifa.org/

Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine Who Votes, Who Can’t, and Who Won’t? We talk about voter participation in marginalized communities Structural/ systemic/ institutional barriers to voting, and motivational barriers to voting. Guests: Maulian Dana, Penobscot Nation Ambassador Michael Kebede, Policy Counsel, ACLU of Maine Chryl Laird, Assistant Professor of Government at Bowdoin College To learn more about this topic: How Shelby County v. Holder Broke America, Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, July 2018 America’s Relentless Suppression of Black Voters, Lawrence Goldstone, The New Republic, October 2018. Young Black Americans not sold on Biden, the Democrats or voting, David C. Barker and Sam Fulwood III, The Conversation, August 2020 Systematic Inequality and American Democracy, Danyelle Solomon, Connor Maxwell, and Abril Castro, Center for American Progress, August 2019 Why So Many Black Voters Are Democrats, Even When They Aren’t Liberal, Cheryl N. Laird, Ismail K. White, FiveThirtyEight, February 2020 Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior, Cheryl N. Laird, Ismail K. White, February 2020 Maine: State of our Democracy, a report from the League of Women Voters of Maine, April 2020. FRRC is one of several nonprofits that are raising money to help returning citizens pay fines and fees in Florida, as mentioned on the show. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond, 2016 The mostly volunteer team at the League of Women Voters – Downeast who plan and coordinate this series includes: Martha Dickinson, Starr Gilmartin, Maggie Harling, Ann Luther, Maryann Ogonowski, Pam Person, Lane Sturdevant, Leah Taylor, Linda Washburn About the host: Ann currently serves as Treasurer of the League of Women Voters of Maine and leads the LWVME Advocacy Team. She served as President of LWVME from 2003 to 2007 and as co-president from 2007-2009. In her work for the League, Ann has worked for greater public understanding of public policy issues and for the League’s priority issues in Clean Elections & Campaign Finance Reform, Voting Rights, Ethics in Government, Ranked Choice Voting, and Repeal of Term Limits. Representing LWVME at Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, she served that coalition as co-president from 2006 to 2011. She remains on the board of MCCE and serves as Treasurer. She is active in the LWV-Downeast and hosts their monthly radio show, The Democracy Forum, on WERU FM Community Radio -which started out in 2004 as an recurring special, and became a regular monthly program in 2012. She was the 2013 recipient of the Baldwin Award from the ACLU of Maine for her work on voting rights and elections. She joined the League in 1998 when she retired as Senior Vice President at SEI Investments. Ann was a founder of the MDI Restorative Justice Program, 1999 – 2000, and served on its Executive Board.

Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine Who Votes, Who Can’t, and Who Won’t? We talk about voter participation in marginalized communities Structural/ systemic/ institutional barriers to voting, and motivational barriers to voting. Guests: Maulian Dana, Penobscot Nation Ambassador Michael Kebede, Policy Counsel, ACLU of Maine Chryl Laird, Assistant Professor of Government at Bowdoin College To learn more about this topic: How Shelby County v. Holder Broke America, Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, July 2018 America’s Relentless Suppression of Black Voters, Lawrence Goldstone, The New Republic, October 2018. Young Black Americans not sold on Biden, the Democrats or voting, David C. Barker and Sam Fulwood III, The Conversation, August 2020 Systematic Inequality and American Democracy, Danyelle Solomon, Connor Maxwell, and Abril Castro, Center for American Progress, August 2019 Why So Many Black Voters Are Democrats, Even When They Aren’t Liberal, Cheryl N. Laird, Ismail K. White, FiveThirtyEight, February 2020 Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior, Cheryl N. Laird, Ismail K. White, February 2020 Maine: State of our Democracy, a report from the League of Women Voters of Maine, April 2020. FRRC is one of several nonprofits that are raising money to help returning citizens pay fines and fees in Florida, as mentioned on the show. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond, 2016 The mostly volunteer team at the League of Women Voters – Downeast who plan and coordinate this series includes: Martha Dickinson, Starr Gilmartin, Maggie Harling, Ann Luther, Maryann Ogonowski, Pam Person, Lane Sturdevant, Leah Taylor, Linda Washburn About the host: Ann currently serves as Treasurer of the League of Women Voters of Maine and leads the LWVME Advocacy Team. She served as President of LWVME from 2003 to 2007 and as co-president from 2007-2009. In her work for the League, Ann has worked for greater public understanding of public policy issues and for the League’s priority issues in Clean Elections & Campaign Finance Reform, Voting Rights, Ethics in Government, Ranked Choice Voting, and Repeal of Term Limits. Representing LWVME at Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, she served that coalition as co-president from 2006 to 2011. She remains on the board of MCCE and serves as Treasurer. She is active in the LWV-Downeast and hosts their monthly radio show, The Democracy Forum, on WERU FM Community Radio -which started out in 2004 as an recurring special, and became a regular monthly program in 2012. She was the 2013 recipient of the Baldwin Award from the ACLU of Maine for her work on voting rights and elections. She joined the League in 1998 when she retired as Senior Vice President at SEI Investments. Ann was a founder of the MDI Restorative Justice Program, 1999 – 2000, and served on its Executive Board.

6/13/20Episode 4: things we learned/things we got wrong:News:Toronto Raptors & St. Louis Blues Protests in Hong Kong https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49317695 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-one-year-later.htmlcannonballs found in Bulgaria dating to mid-1400s Ali Stroker first person in a wheelchair to win a Tony. Tony Awards postponed due to COVID but Broadway Black has announced the Antonyo Awards to take place on Juneteenth.Kraft Ranch dressing as "frosting" Juneteenth 2019 House of Reps listened to testimony about reparations https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/politics/slavery-reparations-hearing.html June 2020 vote called for to establish a commission to investigate reparationshttps://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/reparations-congress-bill-vote/index.htmlIrish island ArranmoreTopics:Matthew Desmond’s 2016 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City John Oliver show Last Week Tonight segment on mobile homes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC8fPQOaxUData on the homeless count performed in January 2020 was tallied this week and LA saw a 13% rise  book The Broken Heart of America Insurance rates based on gender illegal in certain statesMap showing where women charged more than men/vice versa https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/car-insurance-rates-men-vs-women-2019-4 Jan 19 2010 tornado in Long Beach, Sunset Beach, Huntington Beach and Seal Beach https://www.inquisitr.com/57913/tornado-long-beach/California coast sinking L.A. Times July 7 2019 https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-sea-level-rise-california-coast/

Good morning, RVA! It’s 45 °F, and highs today are back up in the 70s. There’s a small chance for storms this afternoon and lows tonight could get down near freezing. Keep an eye on both things if you plan on heading outside or have a garden (respectively).Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 8,990 positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealth, and 300 people in Virginia have died as a result of the virus. VDH reports 1,165 cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 331, Henrico: 598, and Richmond: 236). Yesterday’s data update marked the third consecutive day with fewer new reported positive cases of coronavirus (562, 484, 453), but, as has been the pattern in Virginia, it’s also the third consecutive day with fewer new reported tests (2,934; 2,802; 2,002). As I wrote about yesterday, this means the Commonwealth’s “test-positivity rate” has increased (that’s bad). So what is anyone doing about this? Well, Mel Leonor, Ali Rockett, and Bridget Balch at the Richmond Times-Dispatch say that the Governor announced “the creation of a work group that will focus on improving COVID-19 testing in Virginia.” This seems like a good idea, although, perhaps, a couple weeks late. We’ll have to wait and see how quickly this new workgroup can impact the number of tests being report in the Commonwealth, but, dang, do they have a lot of work to do. For context, Virginia will need to administer about 13,000 tests per day to hit the numbers recommend by that NYT piece from a couple days ago.On the federal side of things, Trump released “Opening Up America Again,” a set of guidelines that “will help state and local officials when reopening their economies, getting people back to work, and continuing to protect American lives.” Part of the necessary criteria—before you even get to the reopening phase of things—is to have either a “downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period” or a “downward trajectory of positive tests as a percent of total tests within a 14-day period (flat or increasing volume of tests).” I’m not sure why that’s an “or”, but Virginia currently has a three-day downward trend of the former and a one-day upward trend of the latter. Anyway, I still don’t see Virginia “opening up,” whatever that means, before the state’s ability to procure, process, and whatever else needs to happen for tests goes way, way up. One of my favorite blogs, The Weekly Sift has the best explanation of Trump’s guidelines and how, despite whatever he says out loud, almost no states will meet his own criteria anytime soon.In Richmond, both the City Council and School Board met yesterday to talk through changes to their budgets. I only caught part of Council’s meeting—as homeschooling intervened—but it sounds like the Mayor’s proposed budget adjustments were submitted as proper amendments. You can listen to the whole meeting here. Also, Council announced that they’ll cancel tomorrow’s scheduled amendment session. That leaves even fewer chances for the public to weigh in on this year’s budget. In fact, the first of two public hearings on the budget will take place this coming Monday. Better get your thoughts in order, I guess. As for School Board, I’m not sure what exactly happened at their meeting, but Samuel Northrop at the RTD says “The board will meet again Thursday to continue budget discussions ahead of the anticipated May 18 adoption date.”Eviction Lab—the group started by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City—has released state-level COVID-19 housing policy scorecards. Virginia gets less than one star!—0.78 out of 5 total. While we’ve shut down most of the court processes that lead to evictions and halted utility disconnections, there’s still a lot of policy we could enact to keep people in their homes during this time of crisis.Ned Oliver at the Virginia Mercury has an update on the how the coronavirus has impacted the state’s prison system. Scary, and something to keep an eye on.I missed this from last week, but RVA Bike Share has temporarily closed until further notice! Our bike share system still lacks the volume of stations necessary for it to function as an important and viable part of the transportation network like you’d see in Washington D.C., Minneapolis, or New York City. So this probably was the right and safest call. If this bums you out, though, consider picking up a cheap, used bike to roll around the neighborhood on.This morning’s patron longreadPrepare for the Ultimate GaslightingSubmitted by Patron Susan. This dark take on what the slow slide into a post-coronavirus future will look like resonated with me.Billions of dollars will be spent on advertising, messaging, and television and media content to make you feel comfortable again. It will come in the traditional forms — a billboard here, a hundred commercials there — and in new-media forms: a 2020–2021 generation of memes to remind you that what you want again is normalcy. In truth, you want the feeling of normalcy, and we all want it. We want desperately to feel good again, to get back to the routines of life, to not lie in bed at night wondering how we’re going to afford our rent and bills, to not wake to an endless scroll of human tragedy on our phones, to have a cup of perfectly brewed coffee and simply leave the house for work. The need for comfort will be real, and it will be strong. And every brand in America will come to your rescue, dear consumer, to help take away that darkness and get life back to the way it was before the crisis. I urge you to be well aware of what is coming.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.

Cody spreekt met ons over tekorten op de woningmarkt, groeiende dakloosheid, sociale huur, kapitaal op de woningmarkt en onze volkshuisvesting in het algemeen. Ook raken we nog heel kort aan de gekte van de week: ’citrixfiles’. ***SHOWNOTES*** Website Cody Hochstenbach https://codyhochstenbach.com/ OneWorld, Cody Hochstenbach, ‘Politici ‘geschokt’ door vele daklozen? Ze hebben het zelf veroorzaakt’ https://www.oneworld.nl/opinie/geschokt-door-stijgende-dakloosheid-dit-zagen-we-al-van-verre-aankomen/ Trouw, Cody Hochstenbach, ‘Doorbreek de ongelijkheid op de woningmarkt en pak privileges aan’ https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/doorbreek-de-ongelijkheid-op-de-woningmarkt-en-pak-privileges-aan~bd858d50/?utm_campaign=shared_earned&utm_medium=social&utm_source=whatsapp Matthew Desmond, ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’ (2017) https://www.bol.com/nl/f/evicted/9200000046351329/ Bureau Helling, Cody Hochstenbach, ‘Zes mythes over wonen doorgeprikt’ https://wetenschappelijkbureaugroenlinks.nl/artikel-tijdschrift/zes-mythes-over-wonen-doorgeprikt Cody Hochstenbac, RTLZ column https://www.rtlz.nl/opinie/column/4983386/wooncrisis-woningnood-huizen-koop-huizenprijzen-misbruik

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America In this brilliant,heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords: Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur, and Tobin Charney, who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. They loathe some of their tenants and are fond of others, but as Sherrena puts it, “Love don’t pay the bills.” She moves to evict Arleen and her boys a few days before Christmas. Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In vivid, intimate prose, Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America’s vast inequality—and to people’s determination and intelligence in the face of hardship. Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. give it a'listen It's a real Freaky Friday on the show today: Candace's audio was good and Ash's sucked balls. It kinda sounds like Ash is conversing with Candace through an old radio via a signal ̷̖̼̗̍ͅf̴̜̝̗̯̉r̷͚̝̻̲̰̐̏ŏ̴̡͇͆͒̕͝m̸̢͓̜̞̥̈̎̿̈́͐ ̶͉̘̭̳̐͐̏̄b̸̲̩̤̖̠͊e̷̛̹̐̋̚y̴̦̥͑͊̉͑ò̵̠̗̞̥̭n̷̢͉̞̩̄͂̃d̸̢͚̉͊͋̅ͅ ̸̭͌͐̌̋͠ṯ̵̮̰͓̩̊̆̃͠h̴̩̬̳͍̔̍e̴͇͎̎̒ ̵̘̫̳̺̈́͛̍̋̚͜v̶͚͈̦̄o̴̢̘̪̬̽̊̇í̶̮͑̓̅͠d̶͖̯̻͉̀̔̅́͠. Enjoy, ya dingdongs. Goodreads We'd love to have you join us in opining over on Goodreads. You can find this book via the link here: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond and of course join our discussion group here. Spotify Playlist Ash mixes up playlists for our books - here's a sample for this week. You can check out our Spotify profile for like, all of them if you want to see more.

In today’s episode, Dr. Denise Goerisch introduces us to the issue of housing insecurity in the US. She also covers the Prologue in Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond, which will be the focus of our first season.

6/16/190:40 News2:55 Just Guess: who said it? or where? or why?6:52 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond22:10 gender and car insurance rates in California35:45 Tip of the Week (and misquoting Didion)

  https://techpolicypodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/alicia_mazzara-500x500-e1548763637485.jpg   Alicia Mazzara: Mapping How a Housing Vouchers Loophole Furthers Segregation (Ep. 171) Landlords across the U.S. are refusing to rent to prospective tenants with housing vouchers. As a result, demand for voucher-eligible housing units in low-income areas greatly exceeds supply. But in high income areas, the opposite is true. Bio Alicia Mazzara is a Research Analyst in the Housing Division at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. She works on issues related to federal low-income housing policy. Prior to joining the Center in 2015, Mazzara was a Policy Advisor in Third Way’s Economic Program where her research centered on income inequality, labor market dynamics, and workforce development. She has also spent time working in the federal government and as a Research Associate at the Pew Charitable Trusts. Mazzara has a Bachelor’s Degree in political science and international relations from Carleton College and a Master of Public Policy from George Washington University. Resources Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Interactive Map: Where Voucher Households Live in the 50 Largest Metropolitan Areas by Alicia Mazzara, Brian Knudsen, and Nick Kasprak (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2019). Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond News Roundup AOC and Pingree call out tech firms for sponsoring event featuring climate-change deniers Democratic Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chellie Pingree called out Google, Facebook, and Microsoft last week for sponsoring an event put on by the CO2 Coalition, an organization that opposes policies that are designed to address climate change. Through company spokespeople, all three companies sought to distance themselves from the views expressed at the event by saying they support organizations across the political spectrum and highlighting their substantial investments to address climate change. After those companies released statements, Ocasio-Cortez and Pingree pushed back even further saying the climate-change crisis is too great for the companies to permit themselves to undermine their leadership by associating with propagandistic organizations like the CO2 Coalition. U.S. Charges Huawei The Department of Justice has indicted several affiliates, subsidiaries and executives of Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei. The company is accused of  stealing intellectual property from T-Mobile and violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. U.S. officials say Huawei’s alleged theft of intellectual property from T-Mobile gave the Chinese government backdoor access to technology from a U.S.-based telecommunications company thereby endangering U.S. national security interests. The U.S. is also in the process of extraditing Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wengzhou from Vancouver in order to face charges that she worked to circumvent U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. Big Tech Increased Lobbying in 2018 Google, Facebook and Amazon increased their lobbying spending in 2018 over the previous year during increased scrutiny from Congress regarding how the companies use personal data. Google’s lobbying expenditures jumped from $18 to 21 million. Amazon spent $14.2 million, up from $12.8 million in 2017. Facebook spent $13 million—a million-and—half more than the previous year. All three companies concentrated a fair share of that spending in the fourth quarter. Netflix joins MPAA Netflix has joined the Motion Picture Association of America which, since 1922, has been the trade association for the six major film studios. The announcement came the same day Netflix received its first-ever Best Picture nomination for ‘Roma’. Advocacy groups call on FTC to breakup Facebook Several advocacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Color of Change, are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to break up Facebook, according to a Wall Street Journal report on a draft letter it obtained. In addition to Facebook, Facebook also owns Instagram and WhatsApp. Many advocates and civil rights groups, including the NAACP, have taken aim at Facebook following the Cambridge Analytica debacle for how the company traffics in its users’ data. It’s not clear what authority the FTC would have to break up Facebook. However, the agency is assessing whether Facebook violated the terms of a consent decree the company signed back in 2011 when it allowed Cambridge Analytica to access the data of some 87 million Facebook users when Cambridge Analytica allegedly handled most of the analytics that went into the Trump 2016 presidential campaign. US Labor Department sues Oracle for discrimination The U.S. Labor Department filed a federal complaint against Oracle last week claiming the company owes some $400 million in lost wages to women and people of color. The Labor Department says only 11 of 500 people hired into technical jobs over a four-year period were African American or Hispanic and that 5,000 women and 11,000 Asian employees were also underpaid by as much as 20% compared to their white male counterparts. MIT report says Amazon’s facial recognition technology is biased A new MIT study says that Amazon’s facial recognition technology is biased against women and people of color. The study found that Amazon’s Rekognition classified a disproportionate number of women as men. Mignon Clyburn appointed to new Artificial Intelligence advisory group The Secretaries of Defense and Commerce and top Republicans and Democrats in Congress appointed former FCC Chairman and Commissioner Mignon Clyburn to serve on the newly-created National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which will advise the U.S. government on national security and competition issues related to artificial intelligence. Former Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt will Chair the Commission and Clyburn will serve with Oracle CEO Safra Catz and executives from Google and Microsoft among others. The Commission was created by the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act and has a $10 million budget through 2020.

We take a look back at our reading life in 2018: our challenges, our wins, and our favorite books of the year. We’d love to hear your favorite books of the year!FictionSarah: The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, and A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesAbby: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman and This Is How It Always Is by Laurie FrankelNon-fictionSarah: Louise Penny’s Gamache series, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Outdoor Design by Charles Montgomery and Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew DesmondAbby: Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of PregnancyMost enjoyableSarah: Crazy Rich Asians trilogy and From Twinkle With Love by Sandhya MenonThe Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang and Hamilton’s Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Rose Lerner, Courtney Milan, and Alyssa ColeMemoirSarah: Educated by Tara Westover, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown, and When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrice Khan-CullorsAbby: We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union and Everything Happens For a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate BowlerOnes that missed the mark for usSarah: Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer and the Darker Shade of Magic series by V. E. SchwabAbby: The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John BoyneLooking forward to in 2019Sarah: Re-reading Harry PotterAbby: Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny, Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Too by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, and Simplicity Parenting by Kim John PayneLife latelySarah reports back on her cold weather camping adventure.Abby got to see Hamilton!Reading latelySarah read There, There by Tommy Orange and Abby read the follow-up to the All Souls Triology: Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness.Eating latelyAbby made a shepherd’s pie with her Thanksgiving leftovers.Sarah made these brownies after a cookie dough disaster.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment on our show notes, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Each year, millions of Americans are evicted from their homes.This hour we talk with Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City started a national conversation about America's eviction crisis.Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

节目摘要 这期播客的上半部分聊了聊上个礼拜的纽约之行，下半部分聊了聊上个月读书会大家一起读的张北海的《侠隐》，完了介绍了一下这个月读的书。 节目备注 欢迎通过微博关注我们的节目@不丧Podcast和女主播@constancy好小气。 关于线上读书微信群：由于目前群人数超过100人，无法继续通过扫码入群。想要入群的朋友可以先加我的微信号（ID: hongming_qiao），然后再拉你入群。 我们播客的邮箱地址是：busangpodcast@gmail.com 这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接： 电影&电视 电影：《乐队来访》(2007) 音乐剧：《乐队来访》(The Band's Visit) 《坂本龙一：终曲》(Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA)(2017) 《坂本龙一：异步》(Ryuichi Sakamoto: async)(2018) 书籍 马修·德斯蒙德，《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴利》，2018 Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, 2016 音乐 播客中的两首歌都来自音乐剧《乐队来访》的原声 "Omar Sharif" "Answer Me" 其他 现在正在纽约古根海姆博物馆举办的两个展览： 瑞士雕塑家阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂(Alberto Giacometti)的回顾展 五位中国当代艺术家的主题展：单手拍掌(One Hand Clapping) 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。

节目摘要 这期播客的上半部分聊了聊上个礼拜的纽约之行，下半部分聊了聊上个月读书会大家一起读的张北海的《侠隐》，完了介绍了一下这个月读的书。 节目备注 欢迎通过微博关注我们的节目@不丧Podcast和女主播@constancy好小气。 关于线上读书微信群：由于目前群人数超过100人，无法继续通过扫码入群。想要入群的朋友可以先加我的微信号（ID: hongming_qiao），然后再拉你入群。 我们播客的邮箱地址是：busangpodcast@gmail.com 这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接： 电影&电视 电影：《乐队来访》(2007) 音乐剧：《乐队来访》(The Band's Visit) 《坂本龙一：终曲》(Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA)(2017) 《坂本龙一：异步》(Ryuichi Sakamoto: async)(2018) 书籍 马修·德斯蒙德，《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴利》，2018 Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, 2016 音乐 播客中的两首歌都来自音乐剧《乐队来访》的原声 "Omar Sharif" "Answer Me" 其他 现在正在纽约古根海姆博物馆举办的两个展览： 瑞士雕塑家阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂(Alberto Giacometti)的回顾展 五位中国当代艺术家的主题展：单手拍掌(One Hand Clapping) 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。

节目摘要 这期播客的上半部分聊了聊上个礼拜的纽约之行，下半部分聊了聊上个月读书会大家一起读的张北海的《侠隐》，完了介绍了一下这个月读的书。 节目备注 欢迎通过微博关注我们的节目@不丧Podcast和女主播@constancy好小气。 关于线上读书微信群：由于目前群人数超过100人，无法继续通过扫码入群。想要入群的朋友可以先加我的微信号（ID: hongming_qiao），然后再拉你入群。 我们播客的邮箱地址是：busangpodcast@gmail.com 这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接： 电影&电视 电影：《乐队来访》(2007) 音乐剧：《乐队来访》(The Band's Visit) 《坂本龙一：终曲》(Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA)(2017) 《坂本龙一：异步》(Ryuichi Sakamoto: async)(2018) 书籍 马修·德斯蒙德，《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴利》，2018 Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, 2016 音乐 播客中的两首歌都来自音乐剧《乐队来访》的原声 "Omar Sharif" "Answer Me" 其他 现在正在纽约古根海姆博物馆举办的两个展览： 瑞士雕塑家阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂(Alberto Giacometti)的回顾展 五位中国当代艺术家的主题展：单手拍掌(One Hand Clapping) 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。

Have you ever wondered how we produce Friendlier? Wonder no more! In this episode we share the backstory of starting the show (including our original failed concept), what we do to prepare for each episode, our recording set-ups, and the editing and post-production that gets Friendlier to you. We mentioned lots of links and resources, but if you have other questions please reach out; we'd love to pass on what we know.Other resources:Behind the scenes episodes from the Girl Next Door and the Mom HourKelsey's blog seriesEquipment:MicrophonePop filter (It makes such a difference in sound quality!)HeadphonesMicrophone standSound and art:Freesound for sound effectsYady Kates for our logo and headerAudrey for intro and outro musicPrograms:Voxer for brainstormingSkype to connect during recordingAudacity to record our files and for editingGoogle Docs and Drive to share outlines and audio filesPippa for hostingLife latelySarah's embracing summer--swim lessons, travel, and endless park time.Abby deleted Facebook from her phone and has no regrets.Reading latelySarah read Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond and Abby finished Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy.Eating latelyAbby's discovered the perfect summer snack: pickles!Sarah can't get enough of this white cheese dip.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment on our show notes, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

EQ: How do we better understand the relationship between race, class, and real estate, and why does that matter?Guest: Marguerite Martin, curator of the Move to Tacoma movement and host of the Move to Tacoma Podcast, the Pod Auntie and a founding pod host on Channel 253 (the spry, young matriarch of the network).Marguerite shares her story:Her love for Tacoma and her early days downtown (what used to be the cheapest neighborhood!).Her start in real estate in the last boom market, circa 2005, and occupational survival in the downturn.The launch of the Move to Tacoma movement (website and, later, the podcast) as a resource for people relocating to the area.Feelings about her career - the thrill and terror of entrepreneurship. You can be creative and be yourself, workaholic!Why lots of people get their real estate license - it’s not too hard to meet the requirements, but it IS hard to build a career (the test has nothing to do with the actual work of selling real estate). You may not get the support you need as a newbie.Making her way - from the dream of being the Queen of Spanaway Real Estate to carving out a niche, first as a condo specialist, then as a downtown realtor, and later as a buyer’s agent. PLUS! The first prototype of Move to Tacoma - Get Real Tacoma.The changes in the local market, especially skyrocketing prices and the lack of affordable housing options.The market now: buyers have to give up more. Buyers are currently at a tremendous disadvantage, especially low-income folks. Those with a lack of intergenerational and historical wealth, especially people of color in Tacoma, don’t have access to the resources they need. Issues with the lack of diversity in the profession--the median age of realtors is 60 and 87% of agents are white. The field is treated by many real estate professionals as a meritocracy. Spoiler alert: it’s not. (Dis)trust and implicit bias fuel ageism, sexism, and racism in the business. Being “woke” in real estate is - maybe - impossible because systems of capitalism are inherently exploitative.Marguerite’s favorite Move to Tacoma Podcast Episode “The Tacoma Dating Scene”Guilty Favsies:Annie & Hope: Target, Target, and more Target!!Marguerite: John Mayer and YoungerDo Your Fudging Homework:Annie: Go watch a video called “Housing Segregation in Everything” from NPR’s Code Switch Podcast. Hope: To understand our country’s history of housing segregation and why things are they way they are today, go read Nicole Hannah Jones: Living Apart and Nerd Farm Reads book “Evicted:Poverty & Profit in the American City” by Mathew Desmond (Ep 30 & Pop the Trunk Addendum)Marguerite: Adams Ruins Everything “The Disturbing History of the Suburbs” and Race Power of Illusion.

11: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in The American City by Matthew Desmond You can visit Matthew Desmond's webside Evicted to find out more about him as an author, to get a study guide to go along with the book and to find out how to get involved in fixing this problem facing many in our cities. 

Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City details the crisis in affordable urban housing experienced here in Knoxville. Discussing the problem are four members of the Knoxville Homeless Coalition: Gabe Cline-Snell, Volunteer Ministry Center's Chief Clinical Services Officer; Misty Goodwin, Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee's Homeward Bound Program; Bruce Spangler, Chief Executive Officer of Volunteer Ministry Center; Lisa Higginbotham, Knoxville Homeless Management Information System data analyst.

Matthew Desmond - author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. #WPROIn its citation, the Pulitzer judges described Evicted: "For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty." In September, 2016, Desmond was the keynote speaker at the HousingWorks conference in Providence.

Harvard sociologist and MacArthur Prize awardee Matthew Desmond tells the story of eight families living on the edge in the New York Times bestselling Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Evictions used to be rare, but today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In vivid, intimate prose, Desmond’s landmark work of scholarship and reportage bears witness to the human cost of America’s vast inequality and transforms our understanding of extreme poverty. Desmond explores these devastating issues of economic exploitation with L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez, and offers ideas for solving these uniquely American problems.For photos from this program, click here. 

"Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small quiet room." So writes Cheryl Strayed in her advice/ essay collection Tiny Beautiful Things. Tiny Beautiful Things started out as an advice column by Steve Almond in 2009, written on the literary website The Rumpus. Advice came from the anonymous "Sugar" persona, a figure who was both kind and wizened. Later, in 2010, Cheryl Strayed took over the anonymous persona of "Sugar," doling out advice but mixing in personal stories of her own to help her readers make sense of their own struggles. It's this mix of advice and memoir that took Dear Sugar too both internet acclaim and later literary acclaim. This week on the MashReads Podcast, we read Cheryl Strayed's collection of advice essays Tiny Beautiful Things.Then, inspired by Tiny Beautiful Things, we talk about the books that have taught us important lessons including The Golden Bough by James George Frazer, The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner by Katrine Marçal and The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison.And as always, we close the show with recommendations: Aliza recommends rewatching the pilot of The West Wing. "Sorkin is far from perfect, but I do find the West Wing enjoyable. It's fast-paced, it's quippy. It's a breath of fresh air, in terms of politics." Peter recommends The Familiar: Vol. 3 by Mark Z. Danielewski. "We're definitely entering in the synthesis era of this. Things are coming together where you see how characters fit into each other. It's really coming together slowly but surely, and it's just marvelous." Alex recommends Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. She also recommends Disney's Zootopia. "It's just really delightful. You guys should watch it." MJ recommends Wild by Cheryl Strayed. He also recommends Roxane Gay's new short story collection Dangerous Women. "I'm only a few stories but every short story has stuck with me. [Her stories] are creative. They are these soaring indictments of how society treats women."

Edition #1040 Today we take a look at a couple of solutions to homelessness as well as some of the forces at play that effect how and where people live across the country Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Show Notes Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill Ch. 2: Act 1: Let's End Homeless Hate Laws - Brave New Films: Justice - Air Date: 12-8-14 Ch. 3: Song 1: Homeless (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo) - Paul Simon Ch. 4: Act 2: Fiscally Conservative: Free Homes for Homeless SAVE MONEY for Utah - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 11-22-15 Ch. 5: Song 2: To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra Ch. 6: Act 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Urban Land Use Decision-Baltimore Ecosystem Study - @InfinEarthRadio - Air Date 6-2-16 Ch. 7: Song 3: Rows of Homes - The Western States Motel Ch. 8: Act 4: .@TaliaBuford on EPA and Environmental Racism - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 2-5-16 Ch. 9: Song 4: Home - Phillip Phillips Ch. 10: Act 5: Matthew Desmond (@just_shelter) - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - We the Podcast with Rep. @keithellison - Air Date 8-8-16 Ch. 11: Song 5: Back Home - Andy Grammer Ch. 12: Act 6: Right to the City: From Policing to Planning: Putting People in Charge - @theLFshow w: @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date 3-8-16 Ch. 13: Song 6: Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Ch. 14: Act 7: Tell Congress to #MakeRoom for Affordable Housing via @MakeRoom - Best of the Left Activism Ch. 15: Song 7: This Fickle World - Theo Bard Ch. 16: Act 8: Rep. @keithellison on ensuring safe, affordable housing for all  - We the Podcast - Air Date 8-8-16 Voicemails Ch. 17: Look into the green party - Chris from Southern Illinois Ch. 18: Let's move on to after the election - Emma from New York City Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics Ch. 19: Final comments on how supporters of the show helped a family in need Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone TAKE ACTION Sign up and send your message to Congress via the Make Room campaign Download the Make Room Take Action Toolkit Encourage your organization to sign the Make Room sign-on letter  EDUCATE YOURSELF "Affordable housing advocates push for Baltimore charter amendment, future funding" (Baltimore Sun) "The lack of affordable housing is causing a public health disaster in Oakland" (Fusion.net)  "Public health problems in Oakland linked to housing crisis" (San Francisco Chronicle)  "Dallas is pushing in the right direction on affordable housing" (Dallas Morning News) "Rep. Ellison Introduces the Common Sense Housing Investment Act" (EllisonHouse.gov)  "Sanders Announces Vermont Secures $3 Million for Affordable Housing, Praises First-Ever Funding of National Housing Trust Fund" (Sanders.senate.gov) Written by BOTL social media/activism director Amanda Hoffman Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!

What does "home" mean to you? For millions of people in America, a safe and stable home is something they dream about but is out of reach. There is a housing crisis in this country. To get a better understanding of this problem, I talked with Matthew Desmond, author of the book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Music by: Keith Ellison and Podington Bear

Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond has written a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America. In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of several families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords: Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur, and Tobin Charney, who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. They loathe some of their tenants and are fond of others, but as Sherrena puts it, “Love don’t pay the bills.” She moves to evict Arleen and her boys a few days before Christmas. Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In vivid, intimate prose, Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America’s vast inequality—and to people’s determination and intelligence in the face of hardship. Martin Bandyke’s interview with Matthew Desmond was originally recorded on March 9, 2016.

Lack of affordable housing is one of the defining social justice issues of our times. Eviction can lead to a cascade of events that can trap families in a cycle of poverty for years. Matthew Desmond is a social scientist and ethnographer, co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard University, and a 2015 MacArthur ‘Genius’ award winner. In this election year, Desmond’s landmark work of reportage Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City offers a searing portrait of the contemporary US, where fewer and fewer people can afford a roof over their head. At the RSA, Matthew Desmond is joined by Shelter’s CEO Campbell Robb; journalist Owen Jones and Sky News editor Afua Hirsch, to explore the impact of eviction on the lives of the urban poor and its role in perpetuating racial and economic inequality.