Harris-Perry on poverty: ‘Those aren’t numbers. Those are people’
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry debuted a new regular segment Sunday focusing on poverty, which she noted many people did not want to touch, even as the national poverty rate remained at 15 percent of the population last year, or just over 46 million people, with 21.9 percent of them being minors.
“Let me be crystal clear,” she said. “Those aren’t numbers. Those are people.”
President Barack Obama’s administration, Harris-Perry noted, has already at least broached the subject; days before his re-election, a campaign spokesperson cited programs like Choice Neighborhoods, Promise Neighborhoods and others in a response to The Nation as proof Obama took the issue seriously.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/11/harris-perry-on-poverty-those-arent-numbers-those-are-people/
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