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Podcast: Cato Event Podcast
Episode: #CatoConnects: Building an Inclusive Economy
Description: Too much of contemporary anti-poverty policy focuses on making poverty less miserable, and not enough on helping people get out of poverty.In his new book, The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor (release date: December 7), Cato senior fellow Michael Tanner looks at the reasons for poverty in America and issues a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom of both liberals and conservatives.According to Tanner, conservative critiques of a “culture of poverty” fail to account for the structural circumstances in which the poor live — especially racism, gender discrimination, and econom...