Bertrand Cooper

Sep 5, 2023 | dissentmagazine.org | Bertrand Cooper |Aryeh Neier |Rich Yeselson

To Hell With Poverty In his new book, Matthew Desmond argues that abolishing poverty will require an ambitious moral undertaking. ▪ Fall 2023 Poverty, by Americaby Matthew DesmondCrown, 2023, 304 pp. One of the most revelatory sections in Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, by America, focuses on housing. Excluding truly elite zip codes, such as those in parts of Manhattan, Desmond shows that it often pays more to be a landlord to the poor than to the rich.

Jun 19, 2023 | msn.com | Bertrand Cooper

Most of my colleagues are college-educated. I am often the only product of felons, addicts, and foster care whom my peers have encountered outside of time spent volunteering in homeless shelters and group homes. Over the years, whenever affirmative action in higher education has come under threat, these folks have offered their sympathies. They believe that I—a child of a Black father and white mother who grew up in poverty and instability—feel the attacks more acutely.