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Poor Logic

Matthew Desmond, a Princeton sociologist who has won a MacArthur "genius" grant as well as a Pulitzer for his previous book, Evicted, devotes his latest work to expounding a "theory" that will explain "why there is so much poverty in this land of abundance," the United States. According to Desmond, the American people as a whole are its cause. ....

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Matthew Desmond is wrong about poverty in America

In 1962, Michael Harrington wrote The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Harrington’s book was a catalyst for President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty. Harrington explained that in the early 1960s, amid the affluence of post-war America, between 40 million and 50 million citizens of the United States were poor. In the early 1960s, the U.S. had a significant poverty problem. ....

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