Behind the News: Pain and Power w/ Arielle Angel

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Doug discusses child poverty: How much was it down, really? Then Mario Pino offers another view of the Chilean constitutional referendum. Finally, Arielle Angel, editor of Jewish Currents and author of a new article, "Beyond Grievance," explores the problems with organizing politics around pain and the issues of "foregrounding grievance in the name of justice."

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:35.0	My name is Doug Hinwood.
0:36.0	Two segments today,
0:37.0	some more on Chilean's rejection of a proposed new Constitution in early September,
0:41.0	and look at the political harm done by a structure of feeling, organized, or end grievance.
0:46.0	Before that, a few words on poverty, specifically the childhood kind.
0:50.0	A few days ago, the New York Times published an article by Jason Deparl,
0:54.0	a veteran reporter in the poverty beat, on the sharp decline in one index of childhood poverty,
0:59.0	the so-called supplemental measure.
1:01.0	Deparl's article drew on the work of a research group called Child Trends.
1:05.0	Between 1993 and 2019, the supplemental measure fell for a rate of 28% to 11%,
1:12.0	a decline of 17 points.
1:14.0	The Child Trends analysis stopped in 2019 because of all the distortions introduced by COVID in 2020.
1:20.0	The Census Bureau's official poverty measure shows a much smaller decline from 23 to 14%,
1:25.0	a decline of just nine points.
1:28.0	The reason for the difference is that the official measure doesn't include government aid programs
1:32.0	like the earned income tax credit, the EITC, or food stamps and housing subsidies.
1:38.0	The Bureau's supplemental measure is an experimental effort to account for those.
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