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Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
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So Rich , So Poor - The Crisis of U.S. Poverty Today
with
. Peter Edelman, Author So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard
To End Poverty In America. Prof., Georgetown University
Law Center ,he was top advisor to Senator Robert Kennedy
and was a member of President Clinton’s administration until he
resigned in protest of Clinton’s signing, 16 years ago the Welfare
Reform and Reconstruction Act.
. Dr. Avis Jones DeWeever, Executive Director of the National
Council of Negro Women, who has been described as a change
agent, living on the intersection of race and gender and fighting
for justice every step of the way
. Frances Fox Piven, professor of political science and
sociology , Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her
latest book is Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven: The Essential
Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate.
The income-level disparity in this country is now wider than at any point
since the Great Depression. How can this country be so wealthy yet have
a steadily growing number of unemployed and working poor. In the past
we took important positive steps without which 25 to 30 million more
people would be poor, but poverty fluctuates with the business cycle. The
structure of today’s economy has stultified wage growth for half of
America’s workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people
of color—while bestowing billions on those at the top.
What is happening to the people behind the statistics and especially the
continuing crisis of young people of color, whose possibility of a productive
life too often is lost on their way to adulthood. This is crisis of poverty is the
most critical American dilemma of the twenty-first century.
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