Gene Purcell in for Ben Merens
from Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 4:00 PM
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| One in six newborns were born poor over the past 40 years...and many remained poor throughout childhood. In the first half of the program, Gene Purcell and his guest discuss the lasting consequences of child poverty in the United States. Then in the second half, Gene Purcell and his guest discuss global poverty, and five possible ways America can maintain...and strengthen...its position as a global development leader.
Guests:
- Caroline Ratcliffe, senior fellow at the Center on Labor, Human Services & Population at the Urban Institute. She's the co-author of the report, "Child Poverty and Its Lasting Consequence." http://wpr.org/r/?858
- Jamie Zimmerman, director of the Global Assets Project at the New America Foundation. Her article, "5 Ways to Put Global Poverty Back on (Whichever) President's Agenda," is at http://wpr.org/r/?857 |
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