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New! Moyers & Company: MLK's Dream of Economic Justice
Item# 53366
© 2013
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-793-6
Martin Luther King had long known that racial equality was inextricably linked to economic equity-fairness for all, including working people and the poor. In the last year of his life, Dr. King announ...
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New! TEDTalks: Paul Conneally—Digital Humanitarianism
Item# 52946
© 2012
11 Min.
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The disastrous earthquake in Haiti taught humanitarian groups an unexpected lesson: the power of mobile devices to coordinate, inform, and guide relief efforts. At TEDxRC2, Paul Conneally shows extrao...
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Street Journeys: Using Theater to Transform the Lives of At-Risk Youth
Item# 52594
© 2012
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-423-2
Shangilia Mtoto wa Afrika (Rejoice Child of Africa) is an orphanage in Nairobi that uses performing arts as a tool to improve the lives of street children—and, in the process, change the negative ster...
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New to Our Collection! A Hidden America-Children of the Plains
Item# 52814
© 2011
41 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-713-4
South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to an estimated 35,000 people, most of whom identify as Oglala Lakota Sioux. Unfortunately, 47% of people on Pine Ridge live below the federal pove...
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Nouveau Poor: Immigrant Poverty
Item# 48032
© 2011
41 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-665-5
The “golden door” exalted at the Statue of Liberty still beckons the world’s poor. Once inside the U.S., however, most immigrants accept a lifestyle that is anything but glittering. This program revea...
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Obvious Poverty: America's Homeless
Item# 48033
© 2011
32 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-666-2
Stereotypes tell us it’s easy to spot the homeless—after all, life on the street tends to leave a mark on people. But is a “homeless profile” really meaningful? In today’s economy a man in a business...
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What Poor Child Is This? Poverty and America's Children
Item# 48031
© 2011
86 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-664-8
If poverty is a serpent, child poverty is its venom. And with an estimated 12 million American children suffering from economic hardship, even the wealthiest society on Earth cannot escape the poisono...
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Streets of Plenty: Inside the World of the Homeless
Item# 43701
© 2010
65 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-693-5
What is the relationship between addiction and homelessness? Where does personal responsibility fit into the equation? Should street addicts be left to their own devices, or do full-service shelters,...
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New to Our Collection! A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains
Item# 52813
© 2009
48 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-567-3
In the hills of Central Appalachia, up winding, mountain roads, is a place where families face unthinkable living conditions. Isolated pockets here have three times the national poverty rate, an epide...
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Education and Social Services
Item# 39264
© 2009
19 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60467-465-1
Directly or indirectly, people working in the education and social services fields make their living by helping others live better lives. This program profiles a preschool teacher, a vocational educat...
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