Book · 2021 · Social Science
Poorly Understood
What America Gets Wrong About Poverty
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He is the author of poorly understood what america gets wrong about poverty co-authored with lawrence eppert and heather bullock and that book is our topic for today.
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Russ Roberts he is the author of poorly understood what america gets wrong about poverty co-authored with lawrence epper… 2
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“he is the author of poorly understood what america gets wrong about poverty co-authored with lawrence eppert and heather bullock and that book is our topic for today”
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“let's turn to your book now um which was way too bleak for me”
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“so the way that we um talk about poverty in the book for the most part is the way that the um the census bureau defines poverty”
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“on one hand um we can say which which i have said in the book and my co-authors that you know there's something wrong here when you have so many people experiencing at least one year in poverty or near poverty on the other hand and i've talked to many groups and and people will raise this issue”
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“the analogy that i use um in the book is the one in musical chairs which is to say okay let's imagine we have a game of musical chairs where there are ten players playing and eight chairs available circle around music stops”
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“my guest today has been mark rang his book is poorly understood”