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The Mess Moynihan Made
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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Jun 27, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
In 1965, a government report on Black families that was never supposed to be public leaked... and permanently influenced how our country thought about marriage, poverty, and personal responsibility. It was called the Moynihan Report. The report affirmed the belief that family structure – specifically, families headed by single mothers – caused people to be poor. This week, host Julie Kohler traces the roots and repercussions of the Moynihan report, and why the solutions to the issues it puts forth run far deeper than marriage.
Released:
Jun 27, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (32)
Legacy: This November, a broad coalition of more than 78 million voters--the most in American history--cast ballots for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. In her first speech as Vice President-Elect, Harris took to the stage wearing suffragist white and declared that she stands on the shoulders of generations of women who paved her path. How do we make sense of the fact that most white women did not stand with her? by White Picket Fence