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How to Become a Poverty Abolitionist

The statistics on poverty in the U.S. are shocking and shameful: one in nine Americans lives in poverty and one in 18 lives in “deep” poverty, defined in 2020 as annual income below roughly $13,000 for a family of four. More than a million public schoolchildren are homeless; more than 2 million Americans live in homes without running water or toilets. In his new book "Poverty, by America,” Matthew Desmond, who won a Pulitzer for his searing book on eviction, strives to figure out why there is so much poverty in the richest nation in the world — and what can be done to eliminate it. The responsibility, he writes, is all of ours: beyond policies and political movements, “it will also require that each of us, in our own way, become poverty abolitionists, unwinding ourselves from our neighbors’ deprivation and refusing to live as unwitting enemies of the poor.” Desmond joins Forum to tell us how. see more
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Study Links Alcohol to Cancer Deaths

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A new study finds that even moderate alcohol consumption can increase the risk of cancer-related death. We'll hear from one of the study's authors, who says alcohol is responsible for 20,000 cancer deaths every year. But the study is not without controversy. Some researchers say alcohol may have certain health benefits, and that it's risky to advocate total abstinence. We'll look at the mechanism by which alcohol may increase cancer death. Should you give up booze altogether?

Guests:

Thomas Greenfield, center director and scientific director for the Alcohol Research Group at the Public Health Institute, and one of study's authors

Christina Clarke, research scientist at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC)

Curt Ellison, Scientific Co-Director, International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research

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