thank you so much, melissa. maria will be co-hosting 50 year war: the changing face of poverty in america on an awe all in official event tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. and msnbc will be covering this report all next week with divests including senator gillibrand from here in new york, michelle moody mills, and maria shriver. we have a link to maria s brand-new report on our website at mhpshow.com. and we are not done with this report or with the issues. i ve got a great table of amazing women here and we re going to keep talking about it. up next, changing the way we see single moms and what we say could change their lives right now. overmany discounts to thine customers! [old english accent] safe driver, multi-car, paid in full a most fulsome bounty indeed, lord jamie. thou cometh and we thy saveth! what are you doing? we doth offer so many discounts, we have some to spare. oh, you have any of those homeowners discounts?
what can businesses do, and what can women themselves do to help people push back from the brink. it s all in this book. i think we have a full screen of some of the ten things you can do. one of the things i loved is these are things that we in our individual lives can actually do to be a part of the change that we seek as someone we know talks about. thank you to you both. for more on the economic crisis currently facing millions of american women, be sure to catch all in tomorrow at 8:00 eastern when chris hayes and maria shriver present the 50 year war: the changing face of poverty in america. coming up, our disrupter of the week, nominated by a disrupter. a principal allegedly fired for standing up for needy children. that unbelievable story is next. [ male announcer ] this is the story
changed dramatically when suddenly people were telling their own stories and folks felt a strong sense of empathy and connection to survivors and victims of the disease. i wonder, and, of course, breast cancer, there was shame around it, initially, before women began to tell their own stories. can we do, for poverty, and for women in poverty, what happened around women and breast cancer? so that in 20 years, we have something totally different. i really hope so. because i think, you mentioned the word shame. there s a lot of shame to standing in an unemployment line. there s a lot of shame to standing in a food stamp line. there s a lot of shame in not being able to put food on the table for your kids. and so what we have tried to do, whether it s through our instagram, through social media, through the film, through what we re doing here, is, you know, to put a face to this. to let people know that there is support for them out there, that the actual, in the polling, the americans
we have an hbo film coming out in march, called the life and times of katrina gilbert that puts a face to these issues. all week long on nbc, we ll be putting face to these issues. and you can see, that s me. people who are struggling and in economic peril today are not people that are over there. it s everybody you know. it s the person in the cubicle next to you. it s the person working in the place you go to get lunch. there s a very fine line between the us and the them. in fact, it s a blurred line. our hope was to add these personal essays to give a face, to give heart to this issue, and to give an impetus to people to care. there s, of course, a great example of this, in fairly recent american history, and that is the success of the breast cancer campaigns. people coming out, telling their own stories. we had all the statistics about how breast cancer was impacting women, but when you look at where we are in terms of public awareness of breast cancer of both government and pri
lines of it, you emphasize that your own personal biography does not include a story of economic instability, but this issue matters deeply to you in terms of how important it is to your country. but i m wondering, the report has all the statistics, but these personal stories from women living in poverty and then people like beyonce and eva longoria. how do the personal stories help to generate empathy that maybe the statistics alone can t help us to see? exactly that way. i think statistics are hard to these numbers are so big, it s hard to wrap your head around 42 million people. but when you read the report, which you can download at shriverreport.org, for the next four days, it s three. and we ve had thousands of people line up just to press the button. but you can read these essays, whether it s from neara tandem, it puts a face to these statistics.