- January 28, 2018
- 1:26 pm
- Raymond Benton Jr
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Poverty in America?
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATT BLACK
“States of Vulnerability”
Award-winning photographer Matt Black has spent the past four years traveling the country to document impoverished communities for his project, “The Geography of Poverty.” These previously unpublished photographs, taken between December 2016 and September 2017, along with diary entries from Black’s travels and an essay from the social entrepreneur Wes Moore, offer a stark portrait of the nation’s deepening inequality and division.
The photographs are sometimes stunning, the commentary is enlightening.
TED RADIO HOUR
Paul Piff: Does Money Make You Mean? (Listen • 10:13)
April 4, 20149:28 AM ET
Heard on TED Radio Hour April 4, 2014 at 9:28 AM ET (and recently repeated):
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/295360962/298763499
Or watch the original Ted Talk here (16:31)
https://www.npr.org/2014/04/04/295360962/does-money-make-you-mean
The Radio Hour broadcast is interesting enough, but the Ted Talk, because of the visuals, is more interesting. His ultimate concern is the increasing economic inequality in the U.S. But toward that concern, read this recent New York Times article, below.
NEW YORK TIME
by Peter S. Goodman (January 27, 2018)
For the first time since the global economic downturn, there is a wave of expansion that is creating jobs, lifting fortunes and tempering fears of popular discontent.