A homeless encampment is seen along a freeway in Hollywood, California, November 23, 2020. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images)
Congress passed an economic relief deal. Will it measure up to needs? We discuss how politics caused a massive surge in American poverty.
James Sullivan, economics professor at the University of Notre Dame. (@LEOatND)
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CBS News: "U.S. poverty jumps the most in 60 years" — "Of the various measures of the coronavirus pandemic's comet strike on the U.S. economy, one especially reveals the size of the crater: Over a six-month period, nearly 8 million Americans have tumbled into poverty."