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How to Become a Poverty Abolitionist

The statistics on poverty in the U.S. are shocking and shameful: one in nine 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. see more
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The Business of Power

Michael Krasny
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Michael Krasny talks with Stanford business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer. Pfeffer's latest book, "Power: Why Some People Have It -- and Others Don't" explores the dynamics of power and keys to success in the business world.

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Jeffrey Pfeffer, author and professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business

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