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Podcast: The Invisible Americans
Episode: Three Ways to Eradicate Child Poverty and Its Residual Effects with Kercena Dozier, Alissa Quart, and Dr. Rita Hamad
Description: Lifting children out of poverty requires whole child, whole community, holistic policies.
Our guests:
Kercena Dozier, Executive Director of the Children's Defense Fund New York
Alissa Quart, author and Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project
Dr. Rita Hamad, social epidemiologist and family physician in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Family & Community Medicine at UCSF
Kercena discusses child poverty in New York state and the multiple policy initiatives that will significantly reduce child poverty. If successful, other states could follow these examples.
Alissa talks...