robert rector writes facts about the poor. this was posted about a year ago. the chart shows the percent of households with certain amendties. 92 pkts have microwaves. 50% have internet service. 33% have a big screen or plasma lcd. the argument there is, how can someone be poor if they have a television set? steve, let me get your take on this because you work in an area of extreme poverty and i would imagine that a tv set, one way or another is not going to help you get out of poverty. let me start by saying, or addressing the microwave issue. in chicago, the microwave may be the only thing they had.
sense of how circumstances beyond your control have impacted your life. first, i would go back to a must read for people who want to understand what s going on with poverty and the work in this country. there was a book called, working and basically the author was chronicling the struggles people went to have work. they would do anything and go anywhere. my family was one of those families back in the 30s, who basically had to pick up and move thousands of miles to find work because there was no work where they lived. it caused a great disruption of life. so, it s ironic that we have this wonderful rhetoric yet decades later having spent billions of dollars elsewhere on much needed programs that we
amnesty program. meaning for instance, that if one had to hypothetically engaged in this illegal swiss bank tax evasion scheme and then one took advantage of the amnesty program, such activity would be found in one s hypothetical 2009 tax returns if one were to release such returns of one s such as it is. i want to find out what my guests think we should mow for the week coming up. let s start with tanya. what i think we should noi for the upcoming week, considering the media is focusing on the poverty issues because of the numbers coming out this week, more people should take advantage of this and come out and speak up about the poverty issues and about the poverty so maybe we can get political action going to help out more people in this country. that s a great idea. josh? well, you should know for this week and many weeks coming after it, based on last week s
parents do for a living. josh, we can come back and respond to that, but we are setting up the notion poverty implicates the evaluation of teachers. we are evaluated them based upon how the students are doing and poverty is implicated how they do. why not make lunch more than just lunch? with two times the points on dining in restaurants, you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. there s more to enjoy. the calcium they take because they don t take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d.
least not from politicians. it s more of an abstraction, not part of the whole. we want to talk about why that is. joining me, we have tonja, founder of lives behind numbers, a blog that tracks poverty in the united states. steven, the author of the people s history of poverty in america an associate professor at columbia university and steve gates, chicago youth programs and john reel, assistant to the director of senior services america inc. tonja, i want to start with you. i was a guest on this program a month ago or a couple weeks ago. you talked about your experience in the wake of the great recession. just tell us a little bit about what the past couple years have been like for you and your family.