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By the People, a civic engagement initiative launched by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, working in partnership with the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University, has received a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a Michigan-based project entitled “Hard Times, Hard Choices.”
The project will engage a diverse, representative sample of approximately 200 Michigan citizens in a face-to-face statewide Deliberative Poll around critical issues related to the state’s economy, education, and housing leading up to the 2010 election. Kwame Holman, correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, will serve as event moderator.
The weekend-long Deliberative Poll, held in Lansing, Michigan, Nov. 13-15, 2009, will be the focus of a MacNeil/Lehrer Productions documentary report, anticipated to be distributed to Michigan PBS stations and offered to PBS stations across the country in early 2010.
Michigan Public Television Stations, including WDCQ-TV Delta College, Detroit Public TV, WCMU, and WKAR, will participate through community outreach projects, which will engage local communities through additional discussions, as well as broadcast and interactive Web elements.
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