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Just read the book. Glad to see this.

I have been homeless. Fortunately I ended up in a hostel for 2 years before moving into permanent accommodation almost 7 years ago. It meant moving out of my original area but not far away.

Watch out for the HCCU scammer She is operating as a credit union, scamming us in the name of wealth building in the BLK community.

Wheres ur money come from?

It’s so funny how you speak so passionately about children. Where was this passion when you were in Jamaica and allowed children at your school to get beaten by you

Fixed poverty in & of itself is a malignant act of violence. How is poverty fixed? It is fixed by the faulty poverty line. The truth is the income of the working class, poor, working poor (& even the disappearing middle class) does not pair up with rent rates & the actual cost of living (decent, bare basic). The problem is the faulty poverty line. When Mollie Orshansky (1960), formulated the basis of the poverty line, it was fixed upon meal plans of peanut butter (or the cheapest no frill emergency diet possible),for 3 meals a day. This was an emergency diet, not a sustainable one. Thereby, the poverty line is fundamentally flawed. As said the poverty line is based on the cost of an emergency diet, and it does not apply to every day life, neither is it sustainable. Many Americans are struggling to pay rent, grocery, utilities & transportation expenses, at minimum. However, if the poverty threshold line is corrected to reflect the actual cost of living, wages & support would increase for many everyday Americans. Including more common sense supportive programs in place for small businesses, average households & college tuitions. One solution could be for support (well supervised, audited support) be federally provided to qualifying employers, (this would be especially useful to small business owners) so that they can pay their employees an actual living wage that is relevant & reflective of the cost of living in real time. People are scratching & struggling to survive, they’ve been robbed of hope & many are not going to go to work, at the risk of losing federal support, if they know that they cannot (on their own), meet the bare essentials to shelter, see a doctor when needed & feed themselves and their children. No one should be forced to choose between being housed (having their rent paid through governmental aid) or choosing employment. The work wages will not pay for rent & basic needs. Impoverished Americans are neither lazy nor crazy, it's called survival. The bottom line is the stronger the working & middle classes are, the bolder the lift of the entire economy bearing down on their backs and shoulders will be. Please make it a priority to address that the poverty line reflects actual, humane cost of living expenses (reflective of the respective city / state cost of living expenses). Don’t make wages minimum, make them relevant (relevant wages are wages that are reflective of actual rent & mortgage rates & a healthy-basic cost of living). We also need a proliferation of vocational training for youth and abled adults (of all ages). I personally would like to see as many buses for (quality) vocational-training-sign-up as I did for COVID-19 vaccines, especially in low income areas. The problem is that far too many Americans are ignorant to the poverty vacuum: ua-cam.com/video/D9N7QaIOkG8/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/-ptHavHrDuE/v-deo.html

When we look at “if there’s a will, there’s a way,” we do best to also see that where there is a way, there’s a will.

Traumatized ppl do traumatizing things, the “rowdy” ways of inward-turned-rightful-anger & sequential counter-productive ways of coping… Poverty causes (and for a longtime has caused) intense stress. Intense stress causes illness & abuse: emotional, financial, illegal & illicit. However, we are ineffective to blame survivors (many people of the Black community) who have been victimized by decades of poverty trapping, stigmatizing, discrimination & generational injustices. And thereby, continue to otherize & ostracize Black humans. Moreover, although disproportionately effected by poverty, Black ppl make up less than 18% of the American population. There are more White ppl struggling thru poverty & welfare programs than there are Black Americans, simply because there are more White Americans. Structured poverty is an act of violence. We need to have both preventative & corrective measures in place to address & heal trauma, as well as end poverty in America for once & for the good of us all.

Whoever was coughing into the mic… EFF YOU. Otherwise a great talk

YES, THINGS ARE BEING DONE, TO US. TREACHEROUS, HEINOUS THINGS. WE DO NEED TO BE THERE WHEN "THEY" ARE DECIDING THESE THINGS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS...USE YOUR OWN AGENCY...I AGREE...

THE POVERTY LINE WILL KEEP DIPPING, DUE TO GREEDY PPL

The Rich have the ability to act, and indulge in Economic Activity, because of their wealth. The Poor have to follow them slavishly. So it's like, the Rich invest and use the Poor to produce $100 of wealth and then take $90 from that. Directly or through hidden subsidies. The Poor are supposed to be grateful that they made the $10. The Poor rise too. Slowly. But the Rich just hog the show. So this "Structure of the Economy".. which we work within and which we accept helplessly is perhaps the larger moral failure which Matthew Desmond talks about.

To the camera man who coughed. Thanks for the heart attack

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You stupid asses worry about your problems over there in the U.K. and we over here on this side of the pond will deal with ours....... You have so much love and concern for black people send them your paycheck you earn for doing nothing more in life than eating, shitting, and writing stupid crap... Oh, and give them your house and you go move to Africa and live in the bush..... Hypocrites..

Something America needs to know You put black people out there Like we're the only one that needs government assistance If you look at the percentage Of people receiving welfare 43% white 28% Latino 23% black The media need to stop lying to America

I think you're wrong about the GOP wants equality. Look at the bills the GOP is against. Dems are for raising the middle class & poor; and taxing the 1% to get the $.

This type of segregation is also prevalent in Great Britain. It was there before it was here. The upper five percent own the majority of land there. In the United States, you can buy land and build your own shack. You can get a good education. You can live a good life. England has food shortages, unaffordable housing, a monarch spending millions on their coronation. One in 50 blacks are millionaires here. Can GB say the same? How much does it cost to dine out there? Several hundred pounds???

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The key point that Desmond made is that our homes are our primary storers of wealth. This leads to restrictive zoning and encourages land speculation that drives up the cost of housing. Any gains we make in higher wages are seized by the landlords, so much so that in places like San Francisco and London can make six figures and still live below the poverty line.

Well anyone that is unable to work they think is garbage people with disabilities even seniors people that may have worked and paid taxes for years just don't matter anymore even Veterans with ptsd or injuries have to fight for their "benefits" and pensions sometimes. The poor are just stigmatized people don't even care how they came to be poor or why there is no social responsibility to them.

The Republican party has no Plan To change poverty in America It is the tool of control To keep Them Folks on top Continue to vote America

If there is a will, there is a way. The problem is that politicians and the rich don’t have the will ti change things. So, this issue keeps rolling until we the people become activists and organize around ending poverty.

China forgets how USA helped them and the rest of the world followed suit, that’s how they got where they are today! It was Russia Stalin who betrayed Mao and China after ww2! It’s disgraceful that China has forgotten who held their hand when they were in economic decline in the 70s! Russia did nothing for China!!!

Collaboration between people who care Proven past experience and success Listen and working with the local communities Much more cost effective than private Monopolies We see you Really invest in your People No one is left behind WWG1WGA

We don’t care about race colour or creed Background We are all good natured people First do not Harm Duty of Care For all Life People/Planet Dream Big WWG1WGA

@25:40 Excellent commentary in general, and I think this point sums it all up. It’s the continuity of moral failings. ..and If Musk says otherwise, the problem is his words are worthless.

@14:10 Yes! This is why I liked Bernie Sanders - he bridged this divide, until anti-socialist propaganda crept in. As a progressive with Tea Party & MAGA family members this was always conspicuous common ground. We definitely need to be leaning into it.

@12:18 Thank you for commenting on MLK’s three ideals. Americans mostly forget his whole vision and concern with poverty/labor rights and war.

Matthew Desmond is addressing issues that have haunted me my whole life through my own observations and experiences, that have long and frustratingly been normalized by virtually everyone I know. I’m grateful.

"Everyone always wants to ask about the causes of poverty, but poverty has been the normative human condition throughout all of history. We should stop asking about the causes of poverty, and instead ask about the causes of wealth." Thomas Sowell (my paraphrase)

Meh

In addition to poverty US in 2022: 72,000 drug deaths. 40,000 dead 80,000 wounded by guns. #1 killer of children, guns. Largest , most expensive, industrial scale prison system. Healthcare systems twice as expensive of any of our peers yet producing poorer outcomes and sliding life expectancy. Largest homeless population of any industrialized nation. Primary education in decline. $31 trillion in debt yet spending $1.5 trillion on forever wars. Thanks for the video!

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. G.K. Chesterton. Currently the rich in both declining nations hide their wealth overseas. Comical yet tragic to know both nations proclaim Christianity guides their nations. Of course neither wants to read or govern by the Gospels of the Prince of Peace. Choosing instead for old testament worship of the Golden Calf. Only fifty years ago US had most even distribution of wealth in it's history. Then Reaganomics, Milton Friedman, and all these years later over $7 trillion in wealth has been transferred From the many to the few. Governments take??? It's all the fault of our enemy dujour which this year is China. Never take responsibility for your own nation's corruption cruelties inhumane crual policies always find an old testament scapegoat to blame. In our world of 8 billion precious humans with 80 million net new precious humans joining us annually this corruption must become history. Civilization will not survive our current course.

This is multi=decade, generational problem in which every leader in this united states already Knows about... and will Do Absolutely nothing to change it.

What cost off living asylum seekers doesn't have that problem put in hotels 3 meals a day money to spend so why is the problem put all this down to Patel

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Speakers did a good job of describing problems but not one good idea on how to solve them.

Great discussion, but please go through and remove the audio spikes. My ears are still ringing from one of them.

Desmond is right but....our politicians (both parties) simply do not care about the poor or their housing issues or education or job/careers or future. That is the problem. The same government that can find all the money and tax loopholes it wants for the rich then turn around and ignore the plight of the poor.

"Some lives are made small so that others can grow"

Much of Desmond's argument is really about the South. The extreme poverty and economic and political marginalization he describes is concentrated in the South. If the Northeast or West Coast were separate nations, they'd have no more problem with poverty than France. We must remember that there are 340 million people in the US.

what a time for this to be recommended

Yes, rent and everything is expensive but you have brain in the head so use it, and find out what's best for you and find cheaper deals. Open a company, become employed in your own company, (therefore find a jobs that pay you on you providing them with invoice) find a reasonable accountant and save on taxes, rent a room instead of the whole house, save there as well, buy dry foods as lentils, rice etc in larger bags and cook in advance for more days. There are so many ways how to work with money even with low salary. Of course I am talking about a person that has no family to support.

Let’s see a updated version 😳

All very good and admirable but it's an illusion. The closing of the gap is temporary. The reason? We live in a system that's competitive - the people on top are going to want to maintain the differential and so another shift away from what's affordable will arise. That's how it's been going - we close the gap they increase it.

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All of them salaries are low. I call that survival salaries.

80%above minimum wage

I came here to learn how to invest after listening to a guy on radio talk about the importance of investing and how he made $460,000 in 4 months from $160k, somehow this video has helped shed light on some things, but I'm still confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas.