August 07, 2019
Focus needed on causes of poverty
I was dismayed in your coverage of poverty in the recent “Breaking the Vicious Cycles” special report. Nowhere in the report did the author discuss the systemic causes of poverty. Other…
I was dismayed in your coverage of poverty in the recent “Breaking the Vicious Cycles” special report. Nowhere in the report did the author discuss the systemic causes of poverty. Other than mentioning the “working poor,” the article alluded to a deficit of character (those who don’t see the value in work or education) among parents living in poverty. “The Souls of Poor Folk: Auditing America 50 Years after the Poor People’s Campaign Challenged Racism, Poverty, War Economy/Militarism and our National Morality” (ips-dc.org/souls-of-poor-folks) found that 140 million people in the U.S. are poor or low income.
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