It was discussed at length, covering how poverty is rooted in various aspects like tax codes, bank fees, and federal policies, highlighting the role of individuals in contributing to the issue.
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It's a useful exercise, evaluating the merits of different explanations for poverty like those having to do with immigration or the family. But I found that doing so always leads me back to the taproot, the central feature from which all other rootlets spring, which in our case is the simple truth that poverty is an injury, a taking.
we don't need to outsmart this problem. We need to out-hate it
One of the things that I love about the war on poverty, which was launched by the Johnson administration in 64, was that when they launched the war, they set a deadline. It wasn't rhetoric. They set a deadline for the abolition of poverty in America.
I think the first step is to recognizing that the end of poverty is an attainable goal. And then to understand that we need to deepen our investments and deepen those investments by fair tax implementation. But we don't just need that. We also need different policies, policies that really address the root causes of poverty, like policies that expand worker power, for example, or housing choice. And then we need to end our embrace of segregation.
We don't need new ideas, actually. We need a political will in a way that this book is my call for that.
