A Girl’s Journey From Nothing To Something
August 18, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with C. Nicole Mason about her memoir, “Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something in America.”
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The Business Of Poverty
July 5, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how government funds to help impoverished families are often syphoned off by local governments and private businesses – and how we can correct the problem – with the author of “The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens.”
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One Day, Two Dollars
September 1, 2015We’ll discuss the underlying causes of extreme poverty with National Poverty Center researcher H. Luke Shaefer, co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.
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Dissecting the Earned Income Tax Credit
February 25, 2015How do working families use the annual checks from the earned income tax credit to build a middle-class life? This hour we’ll weight the costs and benefits with the author of “It’s Not Like I’m Poor.”
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What It’s Like To Be Poor
January 20, 2015About 14.5 percent of Americans live in poverty. We’ll talk with the author of Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America about the many misconceptions we have about what it’s like to be poor.
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Living Without
October 22, 2013Everyone is lacking something, be it money, time or some other resource. And it turns out that our minds process these shortages in very similar ways.
