Bit, but in the first 45 minutes, we will get your reactions from yesterday and the charges in freddie grays death being a homicide. For baltimore residents, 202 7488000. For those in Law Enforcement 202 7488001. For all others, 202 7458002. If you want to put your thoughts on our social media, cspanwj on twitter. Facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. The newspapers this morning have the photos of the six officers, officer goodson rice, miller, porter and officer nero. The editorial pages of two newspapers take a look at what happened particularly when it comes to the Law Enforcement angle, from Washington Post, a step towards justice is there angle. The wall street journal also in their editorial takes a look at this issue specifically mentioning officers, adding this if we learn anything from ferguson, missouri and sat nilan that early conclusions about the facts and Police Confrontations are often wrong. If great julie was killed by the police the b
Welfare reform. After 60 years of guaranteeing benefits to welfare recipients, the federal government wants them to go to work. Has the new policy succeeded . We are the richest, most prosperous nation on earth. Yet, in the midst of plenty, great disparities in wealth. Reducing poverty what have we done . With the help of economic analyst richard gill well investigate that question on this edition of economics u a. Im david schoumacher. There have always been people left out of the American Dream the young, the old, the ill, the untrained. And those whove just lost out in a competitive economy which has losers as well as winners. Today we take it for granted that the government has a role to play in reducing poverty and we argue only about how and how much. But before food stamps and public housing, before government aid to the elderly, what happened when the elderly faced the Great Depression . I see 1 3 of a nation illhoused, illclad, illnourished. Schoumacher the Great Depression cu
Reducing poverty what have we done . With the help of economic analyst richard gill well investigate that question on this edition of economics u a. Im david schoumacher. There have always been people left out of the American Dream the young, the old the ill, the untrained. And those whove just lost out in a competitive economy which has losers as well as winners. Today we take it for granted that the government has a role to play in reducing poverty and we argue only about how and how much. But before food stamps and Public Housing before government aid to the elderly what happened when the elderly faced the Great Depression . I see 1 3 of a nation illhoused, illclad illnourished. Schoumacher the Great Depression cut too wide and too deep for businessasusual. The depression demanded new answers to poverty. No group suffered more than the elderly. Savings accounts were wiped out, pensions were rare family resources, gone. The needs of the elderly have always carried a special urgency.
Where it is women that are the most prominent and focusing on i mean, i recall martha grass who is a native american or mother of 11 children in oklahoma. Plays a prominent role in the solidarity day rally, and speaking about, you know, the challenges that she faces as a mom in the middle of the country and that poverty, you know, impacted women and children more than anybody else, right . And so in a lot of ways the campaign highlighted the it was it provided a space for women who did not see themselves as exactly part of the feminist movement which was unfairly or not seen as white and middle class so you see a lot of issues on display that africanamerican and chicano women, native american women with working class and others are able to stress in this space of resurrection city and Hawthorne School here in the capital. How does that jive with your recollection . No, absolutely. I remember, you know, the leader and organizer of poor working plants in chicano, working Rights Organizat
Hear from panelists on how people from different races Work Together and why the movement was largely remembered as being dominated by africanamericans. This event was part of a symposium to Mark National hispanic heritage month. Its an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you so much, everybody, were going to move on to our first panel discussion. We are presenting this symposium, called organizing across the boundariries in the struggle for civil rights and justice. When poor people marched on washington, the 68 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and Latino History of the United States as well as an oral history and history of film. His first book and focus of his Library Presentation is power to