#currentlyreading Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America.

for most of my followers this kind of stuff is “duh!” but it bears repeating:

“The passage of Prop 13 inspired a nationwide revo that led to Reagan's 1981 cutting spree. It was a white led revolt. … Massive tax cuts, which fundamentally reshaped the agendas of the nation's two major political parties and resulted in the rise of private fortunes alongside public poverty, were not simply a response to government overreach. They were a response to white people being ordered to share public goods with Black people.

The major accomplishments of the civil rights movement outlawed racial segregation in the public sector: … . En masse, whites responded to racial integration by withdrawing from public spaces, then from entire cities, taking their tax dollars with them. … in the wake of the civil rights era, most whites began voting according to their perceived racial interests rather than their economic ones.”

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@TonyStark
Reading @povertybyAmerica. So republicans want to lower help for our most vulnerable. I cannot believe we are here.
#poverty #povertybyamerica #republicthugs

RT @CrownPublishing
Thrilled to see Matthew Desmond's POVERTY, BY AMERICA in this article by @TimothyNoah1 in the @washingtonpost!

Read to learn more about POVERTY, BY AMERICA.

#PovertyByAmerica #PovertyAbolitionist @evictionlab

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/03/16/poverty-desmond-paradox-rank-essay/