panel.hairing this basically keeping everybody more or less on time although we are starting a little bit late. so i just want to introduce our panelists and the weight will get started. i think we will go in the order .isted in your program weo this panel is on are going to so, this panel is on radio and national heritage and we are going to hear first from jane gilden and a member of npr who will talk about how they created the npr historical archive. good morning, everybody. this is jane, my colleague. we are from the research archive and data strategy team at the national public radio. we are known as rad. in our company. several of our colleagues are also in attendance in the conference, so please make sure and introduce ourselves to them and say hi to them. our chief officer sitting in the atnt will also be presenting the interdisciplinary session, so please make sure you attend her talk as well. we are here to tell you about historicalted npr s archive in 2013
year, c-span s touring cities across the country, exploring american history. next, a recent 11 our recent visit to long beach, california. you re watching american history tv on c-span3. this is from the townsend letter on september 30, 1933, to the long beach newspaper, the long beach press telegram. saying, our attitude toward government is wrong. we look upon government as something entirely foreign to ourselves as something over which we have no control, and which we cannot expect to do us a great deal of good. we do not realize that it can do us infinite harm, except when we go to pay our taxes. but the fact is, we must learn to expect and demand that the central government assumed the duty of regulating business activity. when business begins to slow down and capital shows signs of timidity, national government in the form of additional capital. when times are good and begin to show signs of a speculative debauch such as we saw in my can 29, the brakes must be ap
after 60 years of guaranteeing benefits to welfare recipients, the federal government wants them to go to work. has the new policy succeed? 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 we ll investigate that question on this edition of economics u$a. i m david schoumacher. there have always been people left out of the american dream the young, the old the ill, the untrained. and those who ve just lost out in a competitive economy which has losers as well as winners. today we take it for granted that the government has a role to play in reducing poverty and we argue only about how and how much. but before food stamps and public housing before government aid to the elderly what happened when the elderly faced the great depression? i see 1/3 of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad ill-nourished. schoumacher: the great depression cut
untrained, uneducated, and unemployable. how could they get a place at the economic starting line? welfare reform. after 60 years of guaranteeing benefits to welfare recipients, the federal government wants them to go to work. has the new policy succeeded? we are the richest most prosperous nation on earth. yet, in the midst of plenty, great disparities in wealth. reducing poverty: what have we done? with the help of economic analyst richard gill we ll investigate that question on this edition of economics u$a. i m david schoumacher. there have always been people left out of the american dream the young, the old the ill, the untrained. and those who ve 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 t
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 we ll investigate that question on this edition of economics u$a. i m david schoumacher. there have always been people left out of the american dream the young, the old, the ill, the untrained. and those who ve 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 ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. schoumacher: th