Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor

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An unhoused individual sleeps under an American flag blanket in New York City on Sept. 10, 2013. In 2021, approximately 11% of Americans lived below the federal poverty line.

Poverty, by America author Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year: “That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty.”

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