Summary: In the first hour, a look at poverty on the national scale. Is the economy really to blame for the increase? What is happening to our safety nets? Who makes up America's poor? What can be done to reverse the trends? With Michael Reisch, the Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor of Social Justice at the University of Maryland School of Social Work; Indivar Dutta-Gupta from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; and Margaret C. Simms, fellow at the Urban Institute and director of the Institute's Low-Income Working Families project.
