Jamie Peck: Poverty? Oh, that’s just a ‘state of mind’ for the Trump administration
“There has not been a lot of good news for the American poor lately. The post-recession ‘recovery’ has left them behind, the wealth gap is widening and Donald Trump wants to cut billions of dollars from the social safety net so he can give tax cuts to rich people and build a wall on the Mexican border. Fortunately, the secretary of housing and urban development, Ben Carson, has just shared the secret to getting yourself out of poverty: magical thinking.”