Pulitzer-winning sociologist issues wake-up call to America, urging those with means to fight poverty

Why is there so much poverty in America? Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond answers that complicated question in his latest work, “Poverty, By America,” arguing this suffering persists nationwide because people of means benefit from it often without even realizing. Demond, who serves as chair of sociology at Princeton University, joins MetroFocus to share his wake-up call to affluent Americans and why ending poverty is not as impossible as we might think.