Financial Aid To The Wealthy First, Poor Last

Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond was recently on the NPR interview program Fresh Air speaking with guest host Dave Davies, who is also a senior reporter for WHYY in Philadelphia.

Desmond’s 2017 book Evicted received a Pulitzer Prize. His new book is Poverty, by America, in which he looks at factors that create and sustain financial inequality. And, for anyone who has a knee-jerk reaction of assuming that means everyone should be exactly the same, no, of course not, as that is never possible. However, what could occur is a reduction in the number of ways in which many millions are kept down so that a smaller contingent can benefit.