Moyers & Company, March 11, 2016: (Blog) The New War on Poverty
“If Americans are talking about poverty again with greater urgency than they have since the 1970s, it is because they are rightly angered by the cruelties of the 21st-century economy. Wages have been stagnant for decades, steadily eroding what people can afford. Fewer and fewer jobs offer benefits. Even the success stories — young people who graduate from college — carry crushing levels of student debt that prevents them from purchasing homes or cars.”