This hour we’ll talk about caring for the homeless post-Tent City.
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From Unemployed To Homeless
This hour, we’ll talk about what it’s like to live life so close to the margin between unemployment and homelessness with Matthew Desmond, co-director of Harvard’s Justice and Poverty project and author of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.”
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Inside Saudi Arabia
This hour, we’ll get an inside look at the nation’s tension between modernity and tradition with James Jones, director of the Frontline documentary “Saudi Arabia Uncovered.”
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The Future Of Tent City
This hour, we’ll talk about what will happen to the people who live there once the City of Dallas closes the homeless encampment.
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One Day, Two Dollars
We’ll discuss the underlying causes of extreme poverty with National Poverty Center researcher H. Luke Shaefer, co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.
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Dissecting the Earned Income Tax Credit
How do working families use the annual checks from the earned income tax credit to build a middle-class life? This hour we’ll weight the costs and benefits with the author of “It’s Not Like I’m Poor.”
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What It's Like To Be Poor
About 14.5 percent of Americans live in poverty. We’ll talk with the author of Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America about the many misconceptions we have about what it’s like to be poor.
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Living Without
Everyone is lacking something, be it money, time or some other resource. And it turns out that our minds process these shortages in very similar ways.
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