The Poverty Narrative: Understanding Disadvantage in Rural, Urban, and Suburban Places

Disadvantage takes different forms in different places, and context is important when reporting on challenges facing a community and potential solutions. This panel will discuss how poverty plays out in rural, urban, and suburban places.
Moderated by Lynette Clemetson, director of Wallace House at the University of Michigan.
Submit your questions in the UA-cam comments or via Twitter with #PovertyNarrative
About the Poverty Narrative series: The #PovertyNarrative is a free virtual series dedicated to a deeper understanding of poverty in the U.S. and especially the Midwest sponsored by Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan. The series includes 6 interactive webinars to promote in-depth, impactful, and solutions-oriented media coverage of poverty issues:
June 9, 2020: Lessons on Inequality from COVID-19: Q&A with Michele Norris
June 11, 2020: Re-thinking the Poverty Narrative
June 16, 2020: How to Tell a Story with Data
June 16, 2020: Solutions Journalism Workshop
June 18, 2020: Understanding Disadvantage in Rural, Urban, and Suburban Places
June 23, 2020: Where Public Policy Meets Real Life
June 25, 2020: Using Personal Stories for Systemic Change
Join the network and learn more about the series at: poverty.umich.edu/projects/mi...

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At first, I thought I was having a nightmare......it was way past midnight and I was tired. I heard people talking about "poverty".... even the words "rural", "urban", "people of color".... was I back in the 1960's at another poverty pimp "meeting"? The jargon was the same: complicated, nuanced, sincere-sounding and shallow. The voices went on and on and on until I screamed out loud: "another "POVERTY PIMP" meeting I had to attend.....auggghhh!!!! My head was moving rapidly from side to side uncontrollably. I had to get out of there.
I found myself standing in the middle of the floor trembling. But then , slowly I realized that I was not in room 221 at the end of the hall--it was only UA-cam!!