"The book feels especially relevant as Trump returns to office. It focuses on the depths of social inequality that the pandemic revealed on his watch, which did not vanish as Americans stripped their masks, returned to eating indoors, and did their best to forget about the virus. A new Trump administration poses unique threats to the welfare state, from gutting the coverage of the Affordable Care Act to slashing housing assistance to reducing SNAP food benefits. But neither major political party has adequately addressed the immiseration that Jones chronicles. Poverty is a fundamental feature of the American political economy, regardless of who’s in charge."
~ Michael Friedrich
"America’s Abandonment of the Poor" | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/189425/americas-abandonment-poor
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