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Sociologist and author Mark Rank talks about his\xa0book, Poorly Understood, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rank looks at a wide\xa0variety of aspects of poverty. He argues that many widely-held views on poverty are inaccurate, and in particular he argues that most Americans will be poor at some point in their lives. This is a wide-ranging and lively conversation on the nature of poverty and the challenge of ending or reducing it.