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Tag: Economy
Posted inEconomy and Inequality, Politics and Movements: US, The Laura Flanders Show, Third Party Content

Laura Flanders Show: Reporting on Economic Hardship

by Jocelyn Dombroski

Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Surely the media should help. This week, why mainstream media are so poor at covering poverty – and what one organization, The Economic Hardship Reporting Project,  is […]