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    Congress, COVID And Poverty In America

    Dec 22, 2020 2 minutes
    A homeless encampment is seen along a freeway in Hollywood, California, November 23, 2020. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images)

    Congress passed an economic relief deal. Will it measure up to needs? We discuss how politics caused a massive surge in American poverty.  

    Guests

    James Sullivan, economics professor at the University of Notre Dame. (@LEOatND)

    Rev. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. President and senior lecturer at . ()

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