Facing American Poverty and Global Supply Chain Issues

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Protestant minister, social activist, and Yale Divinity School professor, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, joins Jon Stewart to explain the misrepresented statistics of poverty in America and his latest book, “White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.” Also, New York Times global economics correspondent and author of "How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain," Peter S. Goodman, sits with Michael Kosta to explain American dependence on an unstable supply chain.

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0:55.0	He is a Protestant minister.
0:57.0	Social activist Yale Divinity School Professor whose latest book is called White Poverty,
1:02.3	how exposing myths about race and class can
1:04.8	reconstruct American democracy.
1:06.7	Please welcome to the show Reverend Dr. William Barber.
1:09.2	Sir, a pleasure, a pleasure. A pleasure. The booty's called White Poverty. I'm holding it up. I'm not everything.
1:17.0	White poverty, you sir are famously not white.
1:21.0	So why write white poverty?
1:25.0	Well, actually I come from Caucasian, black, and Tuscaroan descendant.
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