Wagner Podcasts

Wagner Students - Chris Collins, Aaron Ampaw and Erin Price - Discuss Obama's First 100 Days

Disasters and Peacemaking: Creating Opportunities for Peace with Michael Renner, Senior Researcher & Director, Global Security Project, Worldwatch Institute

Nearly half of all children born into poverty will be persistently poor, meaning they will be poor for at least half of their childhoods. From birth, their socioeconomic status will determine, in part, the neighborhood in which they live, the food they eat, the education they receive and whether or not they will be poor as adults. Studies show that 20 percent of children born into poverty will spend a significant amoung of their early adulthood in poverty as well. As adults, the persistently poor receive less than 65 percent of their total income as wages, accumulate fewer assets and rely heavily on social safety nets to make end meet. As the economy continues to shift toward high-skilled labor and cuts to social programs increase, there is a greater need to better understand the problems and challenges of overcoming persistent poverty in America. Join expert panelists from across the country as we discuss current anti-poverty measures and public policies, structural and institutional barriers to economic security and mobility, and the impact of labor segmentation and chronic unemployment on persistent poverty.

Voting for Peace: Building Democracies in Post-Conflict Countries with Thomas Flores, Clinical Associate Professor, Center for Global Affairs