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This edition: Child Poverty in America: Investing in Our Future





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Episode Details

Original tape date: November 14, 2023. First aired: February 12, 2024.

Carol Jenkins leads an important discussion on how to reduce child poverty and how society benefits. Featuring: Regina S. Baker, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an affiliated scholar of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the CUNY Graduate Center; Kathryn J. Edin, professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and co-author of the recent book The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America; Janet Gornick, professor of political science and sociology and director of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the CUNY Graduate Center; and Zachary Parolin, assistant professor of social policy at Bocconi University, senior research fellow at Columbia University's Center on Poverty and Social Policy, and author of Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19.