110: What we talk about when we talk about poverty
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English - October 15, 2015 19:02 - 20 minutes - 19 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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If it seems impossible to talk about poverty in the U.S. without talking about race and culture, that's thanks in large part to one man: Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
In 1965, Moynihan wrote a government memo that changed the way we think about poverty. In this episode, writers Peter-Christian Aigner and Stephanie Coontz weigh in on the report's legacy, and Moynihan's intentions.
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