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National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records. Matthew Desmond

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What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers. Matthew Desmond

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Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spend time with use that as a big screening mechanism. And that's really the reason, we think, families are pushed into worse housing and worse neighborhoods after their evictions. Matthew Desmond

Kids increase people's risk of eviction. Matthew Desmond

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Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty. Matthew Desmond

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I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources. Matthew Desmond

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When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up? Matthew Desmond

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts. Matthew Desmond

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Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression but also because of what living in awful conditions told you about yourself. Matthew Desmond

If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent - at least when it comes to housing - we should own up to that decision and stop repeating the canard about this rich country being unable to afford more. Matthew Desmond

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art. Michael Schudson

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American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets. Michael Schudson

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Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them. Michael Schudson

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The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment. Michael Schudson

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The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values. Michael Schudson

Values Power More Rests Ads Obvious Repetition Than Subtle Transmission

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales. Michael Schudson

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Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy. Peter L. Berger

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If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe. Peter L. Berger

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But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. Peter L. Berger

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Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy. Peter L. Berger

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I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. Peter L. Berger

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