“Poverty abolitionists are solutionists, doers, prioritizing plan over critique. Tangible wins over rhetorical ones. Usefulness over purity. And we must organize.” PovertyInequalitySolutionss Book:Poverty, by America Source: Poverty, by America
“Poverty isn't simply the condition of not having enough money. It's the condition of not having enough choice, and being taken advantage of because of that. When we ignore the role that exploitation plays in trapping people in poverty, we end up designing policy that is weak at best and ineffective at worst.” PovertyInequalityExploitation Book:Poverty, by America Source: Poverty, by America
“I wanted to write a book about poverty that didn’t focus exclusively on poor people or poor places. Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor people and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor people and rich people together in mutual dependence and trigger. Eviction was such a process.” PovertyInequality Book:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City