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Pulitzer winner Matthew Desmond:

“Poverty is often material scarcity piled on chronic pain piled on incarceration piled on depression piled on addiction—on and on it goes. Poverty isn't a line. It's a tight knot of social maladies. It is connected to every social problem we care about - crime, health, education, housing - and its persistence in American life means that millions of families are denied safety and security and dignity in one of the richest nations in the history of the world.”