BUSTED #3: Rags to Riches (LISTEN)
Is America a land of equal opportunity and upward mobility for all?
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BUSTED #5: Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook- Poverty in America Edition (LISTEN)
When reporting on poverty, the media fall into familiar traps and pundits make prescriptions that disregard the facts.
Rags to Riches
In the third installment of our series "Busted: America's Poverty Myths," produced in partnership with NPR's On the Media, we take on one of our country's most fundamental notions: that America is a land of equal opportunity and upward mobility…
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."