The Chris Hedges Report Show with Matthew Desmond, author of "Poverty, by America," on how our epidemic of poverty is not an accident, but is by design.

According to the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, 14.3 percent of Americans — nearly 50 million people — were living in poverty in December. “If America’s poor founded a country,” Matt Desmond writes in his book “Poverty, By America,” “that country would have a bigger population than Australia or Venezuela. Almost one in nine …