US Poverty: Causes & Public Policy Solutions

Interview with Colleen Shaddox, author of Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty, conducted by Scott Harris

Colleen Shaddox talks about her new book, Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty, co-authored with Joanne Samuel Goldblum. The book examines how bad public policies conspire to keep people poor, and the concrete steps we can take to end poverty for good.

Shaddox is a career journalist and activist committed to criminal justice reform and economic equality.

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