Radiolab Presents: On the Media: Busted, America's Poverty Myths

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🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We love to share great radio, even if we didn’t make it. Today, On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone tells Jad and Robert about a mammoth project they launched to take a critical look at the tales we tell ourselves when we talk about poverty. In a 5-part series called "Busted: America’s Poverty Myths,” On the Media picked apart numerous oft-repeated narratives about what it's like to be poor in America. From Ben Franklin to a brutal eviction, Brooke gives us just a little taste of what she learned and shares a couple stories of the struggle to get ahead, or even just get by. Go check out the full series, it’s well worth it. You can hear all 5 episodes of Busted here or subscribe to On the Media in iTunes (or wherever you get your podcasts) to listen to this series or all their other great work. "Busted: America’s Poverty Myths" was produced by Meara Sharma and Eve Claxton and edited by Katya Rogers. They produced the series in collaboration with WNET’s Chasing the Dream; poverty and opportunity in America. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
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0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:18.7	This is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, before we go there. Say who you are. Okay, this is Radio Lab. I'm Chad. I'm Brad. I'm Robert Quote. Jad's been gone for a while, so you might have forgotten that, but he's here again. I'm back. So glad to be back. And today... Today, we are featuring our... Those people you just heard.
0:38.1	Yeah, these are our pals from down the hall at On the Media.
0:41.5	With part three of our series, busted America's poverty men.
0:45.4	Because a little while back, Brooke Landstone, she put together a wonderful set of stories.
0:50.5	Five in all, I believe.
0:51.7	About poverty in the United States.
0:53.2	And it's a pretty amazing series. And we figure part of what we should do here always is present not just our
0:59.4	work, but great work that's happening around us. So we decided to bring Brooke into our studio.
1:04.1	Hello. Hey. Hi. Nice to see you in our territory. All right. So she came to talk about what she
1:10.1	found and to play us parts of this series, which we think
1:12.8	you're going to dig.
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