BUSTED #2: Who Deserves To Be Poor? (Listen)
We trace the history of welfare in America, from aid to widows after the Civil War to Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty to Bill Clinton's pledge to "end welfare as we know it."
WNYC
BUSTED: Go-Behind the-Scenes with WNYC’s On the Media in Ohio (Watch)
We examine how the story of poverty gets told -- and whether media attention makes any difference.