Poor Americans seem so perplexing to rich Americans because they live in different worlds.
We have two housing and two banking systems. We ask why don’t poor people make different choices but the whole point is they don’t have other choices.
“The system isn’t broken. It’s bifurcated,” writes journalist Matthew Desmond in his 2023 book Poverty, By America. Below I share my notes for future reference.
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