21st Century: Query 168 (Willem de Kooning and Matthew Desmond)
“The
trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.”
“If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.”
~ Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was
born in Rotterdam
and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962.
“If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.”
~ Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. He is also an American sociologist who is a professor in the department of
sociology at Princeton University.
How are these statements
true? Untrue?
In modern America, how can poverty sap one’s strength and resources?
What is the “lack” to which Desmond refers?
In modern America, how can poverty sap one’s strength and resources?
What is the “lack” to which Desmond refers?