Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
The Moral Problem of America’s Poverty
Sept. 18, 2020 – Rev. William Barber II is the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, an economic justice effort first envisioned by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. Rev. Barber calls America’s staggering poverty numbers a moral problem worthy of attention in the current presidential campaign, as well as in political contests…
Read MoreMark Kennedy Shriver on Early Childhood Development
June 19, 2020 – Childhood disparities around malnutrition, graduation rates, and early deaths are worst among rural, black-majority counties in the American South and isolated counties with Native American populations, according to a report by Save the Children. Correspondent Russell Contreras, also a reporter for the Associated Press, speaks with Mark Kennedy Shriver, president of…
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