Here we are at the People's Summit, and it's not really clear to me that there's a lot of discussion about poverty, there's a lot of discussion about climate change and about the fight for 15 and other very important issues. But The willingness of the American people to accept millions of people who live in poverty and just ascribe that to their laziness or character flaws. And add another thing, you know, we're based in Baltimore. Add to that 350 murders a year, clearly the consequence of living in deep, chronic poverty, and that becomes just another norm that hardly gets talked about. (09:55–10:11)
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