| Capitol Journal - Poverty | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 10193 |
| Catalog #: | 459952 | |
| Clip Number: | 459952-1 | |
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| Location: | N/A | |
| Year Shot: | 1986 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ECONOMICS: Poverty | |
| Description: | (01:00:00) WETA logo, PBS funding credits (01:00:14) Opens to Senator PATRICK MOYNIHAN saying there is a moral responsibility to take care of the poor, unidentified woman says money won't help the problem, In tv studio Capitol Journal host HODDING CARTER introduces the show - all this opening footage is contained within a window in the center of the screen, under the window runs a banner reading Capitol Journal (01:00:49) Capitol Journal title screen and animation (01:00:57) In studio Carter summarizes busy week in American politics and introduces show topic - poverty, excerpts from tv programs concerning poverty - Frontline, Donahue, CBS report, quick shots of House Subcommittee on Public Assistance holds hearing on teenage pregnancies, brief shot of hearing of the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, Policy forum by the Senate Children's Caucus at which before a bench of Senators a young Asian boy - ALBERT LIN - asks how any of the Senate's statistical discussions are going to get a meal for a starving child, at a press conference for the Children's Defense Fund Director MARIAM WRIGHT EDELMAN speaks, text on screen displays the findings of House Ways and Means Committee Report on child poverty (01:04:28) Carter stands in a run-down neighborhood a few blocks from the Capital, shots of Potomac Gardens housing project - SHEILA WOOD, resident, contrasts a tourist's perception of Washington D.C. to her reality, Wood with her two young boys in a classroom, Wood tutoring neighborhood children in an apartment, various shots of children and adults hanging out on the sidewalks of the housing project, shots of Wood coordinating a ball game with local children on a tarred lot, Wood speaks by apartment window about problems in her neighborhood and what politicians need to do about it (01:09:34) Shot of House Select Committee of Children, Youth and Families, Representative GEORGE MILLER calls for a change in policy to get resources to those in need, Mariam Edleman contrasts the federal budget cuts in social programs to the rising rate of poverty, Conservative punditCHARLES MURRAY says we need to toughen up our failed social policy and says that welfare programs are the cause of persistent poverty, Representative Miller explains the success of programs like Headstart, Sheila Woods makes an angry call to politicians for federal assistance - raising her fist and shouting "we are the ones that put you in office", Murray says further social spending won't alleviate rate of illegitimate children in black communities, Representative Miller criticizes Murray, Woods says that some day "we'll get out of here and when we do I'll be one happy soul" (01:13:17) Back in studio Carter segues to interviews conducted earlier with Senator Moynihan and Representative BARBARA VUCANOVICH in their respective offices - they discuss the new focus on children's poverty, Aid to Family with Dependent Children, Moynihan's poverty plan, "training the unemployed black male", money spent on welfare programs, federally provided childcare (01:18:42) Back in studio Carter introduces his discussion panel: FRED BARNES of the New Republic, COKIE ROBERTS of National Public Radio, COURTLAND MILLOY, they discuss federal programs to combat poverty, racial focus of poverty issues, the call for a moral awakening, and why poverty has suddenly become a political issue (01:26:55) Carter thanks guests and close out show, credits roll (01:27:30) PBS funding credits | |
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