Podcast appearances and mentions of colleen shaddox

Colleen Shaddox is the co-author (with Joanne Goldblum) of the book Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty. Her essays and other writing have been featured by NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other leading publications and media outlets. In this wide-ranging conversation, Colleen Shaddox reflects on her journey to becoming an activist and truth-teller about poverty and other forms of social inequality and injustice in America. Shaddox highlights the importance of emphasizing the agency and dignity and intelligence of the poor, the working class, and other strivers and hardworking people in America who are under assault by gangster capitalism as they try to make a better life for themselves, their families, and communities. Colleen Shaddox and Chauncey DeVega also discuss social capital, poverty shaming, living a principled life, and maintaining one's balance in a time of ascendant fascism, cruelty, and other evil. Chauncey DeVega (again) calls out the hope peddlers and others who have convinced themselves that Donald Trump is going to jail and believe in other false happy endings. And Chauncey has a rap session where he ponders the meaning of his first birthday since The Event of last year, journeys home to see his mama for Labor Day weekend, has a big only child working class attack of anxiety and worry, sees horrible things on these mean streets where life is so very cheap, goes to the movies, is the CM Punk AEW controversy a work or a shoot?, and updates everyone on his other (mis)adventures. There is also an “Easter egg” at the end of this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow

Current statistics paint a bleak picture for American children: about one in four kids will experience some form of abuse or neglect at some point in their lifetimes. But, what if we could predict the likelihood of abuse before it happens? What about at birth?  Social scientists and computer programmers are hoping to do just that.  New predictive risk models that promise to be able to determine the likelihood of abuse or neglect are being deployed in public child protective service agencies around the country. However, poorly implemented algorithms have real-world impacts on real people. When used in child welfare cases, algorithms consider things like interactions with police or the welfare system. However, many of these data are proxies for race or poverty. For example, people are more likely to call police on a Black family and give a white family the benefit of the doubt. That interaction with police then becomes data an algorithm considers when determining risk. Again, the data are biased because it comes from biased people, and sometimes the data are even racist. A computer doesn't know the difference between a racist complaint and a real one. They are both data, and in a computer's eyes, equally as useful. This episode is a production of the Department of Motion Pictures and Stories of Change, a partnership of the Sundance Institute and the Skoll Foundation, with support from IFP and Quinnipiac University. Our editor is John Dankosky. Our mixers are Ben Kruse and Henry Bellingham. Our producers are Elizabeth Lodge Stepp and Michael Gottwald. Executive Produced by Josh Penn. Research by Kate Osborn. Fact checking by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas. Additional reporting by Colleen Shaddox. Special Thanks to Emily Jampel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More than 1 in 3 Americans - roughly 38% - are having difficulty meeting their basic needs each month. You may be one of them, or know someone who is. Or you don't know, because they're hiding it from you. Regardless, the number remains: 123 million people. Broke in America authors Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox believe it doesn't have to be this way, and they're ready to prove their case.Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty, by Joanne Samuel Goldblum & Colleen ShaddoxNational Diaper Bank NetworkAlliance for Period Supplies"John Steinbeck once said..." - Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress10 Policies to Prevent and Respond to Childhood Lead Exposure - Pew Charitable Trusts"You're Not You When You're Hungry" - Snickers CommercialDoes 'Medicare For All' Cost More Than The Entire Budget? - PolitiFactWestern Regional Advocacy ProjectFeeding AmericaFollow Joanne on Twitter: @jgoldblumFollow Colleen on Twitter: @ColleenFree----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Fran Quigley, the author of Religious Socialism: Faith in Action for a Better World (Orbis Books) joins the conversation to discuss the long history of socialism in religious communities. In this conversation we focus on the legacy of socialistic Christians (predating the term by 1700 years or so) going all the way back to the book of Acts and the early Church Fathers. We also got to talking about the greats, from Eugene Debs to Cornel West, Angela Cowser and Colleen Shaddox.  We also feature a long (and persuasive, I might add) pitch to join the DSA's Religion and Socialism Working Group! About Fran Quigley: A longtime human rights activist and member of faith-based and health care access advocacy groups, Fran Quigley is a clinical professor at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where he directs the Health and Human Rights Clinic.  Follow Fran Quigley on Twitter Check out CH Podcast Booking Service Follow Casey's substack Rate/Review on Apple Podcasts Support us on Patreon and win a book! Music: Orbach Art: Phil Nellis

(That Senator may have made damn sure they'll be NO Child Tax Credits for you coming up, Kiddos!) The authors, Joanne Samuel Goldblum, (@jgoldblum), founder of the National Diaper Bank Network, and journalist Colleen Shaddox argue that the systems that should protect our citizens are broken and that poverty results from flawed policies—compounded by racism, sexism, and other ills—rather than people's “bad choices.” Federal programs for the poor often fall far short of their aims: The U.S. has only 36 affordable housing units available for every 100 extremely low-income families; roughly 1 in 3 households on Navajo reservations lack plumbing; and inadequate counsel by public defenders can lead to harsher penalties for crimes or time in “debtors' prisons” for those unable to pay fines or court fees. An overarching problem is that the U.S. determines eligibility for government benefits with an outdated and “irrationally low” federal poverty level of $21,720 for a family of three, which doesn't take into account necessities such as child care when women work outside the home. The authors credibly assert that it makes more sense to define poverty as an inability to afford basic needs in seven areas—“water, food, housing, energy, transportation, hygiene, and health”—each of which gets a chapter that draws on academic or other studies and interviews with people like a Baltimore resident who had to flush his toilet with bottled water after the city shut it off due to an unpaid bill. This plainspoken primer in the spirit of recent books like Anne Kim's Abandoned and Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Tightrope, Goldblum and Shaddox interweave macro analyses with examples of micro interventions that might work in any community. A Head Start teacher in Lytle, Texas, says her program saw benefits just from giving toothbrushes (and a chance to use them at a classroom sink) to children who had none at home: “They come here, and they scrub like there's no tomorrow.”

In this week's episode of Podcast from Washington, NACCHO government affairs team members Ian Goldstein and Adriane Casalotti discuss the looming deadline to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government by the end of the fiscal year on September 30, while also lifting the debt ceiling before a default. They also discuss the Food and Drug Administration's authorization of COVID-19 booster shots for those over 65, or over 18 and immunocompromised.  Later in the program, Ian speaks with the authors of Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty, by Colleen Shaddox and Joanne Goldblum. They discuss how the authors became inspired to write a book about poverty in America and the solutions proposed in the book to tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges for impoverished people, such as access to clean water, housing, and transportation. 

Senator Turner elevates U.S. poverty repair with author-activists, Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox. These three break down the gravity of how we're perpetuating poverty through policy, practices and pre-conceived notions about the morality of being poor…and how we can change. #HelloSomebody LINKS Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending U.S. Poverty by Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox *Foreword by Bomani Jones; SNT reads from the foreword in this episode http://brokeinamerica.net/ The National Diaper Bank Network https://nationaldiaperbanknetwork.org/ Poor People's Campaign: William Barber https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/ American Promise – restore American democracy https://americanpromise.net/ PRO-ACT, Protecting the Right to Organize Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842 Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer by Morris Pearl, Erica Payne & The Patriotic Millionaires  https://taxtherich.com/the-book/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Senator Turner elevates U.S. poverty repair with author-activists, Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox. These three break down the gravity of how we're perpetuating poverty through policy, practices and pre-conceived notions about the morality of being poor…and how we can change. #HelloSomebody LINKS Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending U.S. Poverty by Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox *Foreword by Bomani Jones; SNT reads from the foreword in this episode http://brokeinamerica.net/ The National Diaper Bank Network https://nationaldiaperbanknetwork.org/ Poor People's Campaign: William Barber https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/ American Promise – restore American democracy https://americanpromise.net/ PRO-ACT, Protecting the Right to Organize Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842 Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer by Morris Pearl, Erica Payne & The Patriotic Millionaires  https://taxtherich.com/the-book/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, the authors of Broke in America (Ben Bella Books, 2021), join Casey for a discussion on their work, the state of poverty in America and the fact that poverty is a policy choice. We get into such topics as privatization of basic human needs, school zoning and whether the Biden administration is doing anything notable to combat poverty on a national scale. Both authors share how they came to this work as well as the faith traditions (Jewish and Catholic) that brought them to care for the poor in a material way. We also discuss what it truly means to be on the side of the poor and marginalized (hint: it has much more to do with material restructuring than it does performative gesticulations or interpersonal anti-racist measures) and the fact that Barbara Lee is the real deal (for just one proof of this fact, watch this video right after 9/11, when she stands alone in the House of Representatives - not even Bernie got this one right - and defends her sole vote against Bush's AUMF)! Order Broke in America here ***Like the show? Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts!!!*** Promo Music by Orbach https://orbach.bandcamp.com/album/orbach Theme Music by Small Fish: https://soundcloud.com/small-fish Support the show: patreon.com/caseyhobbs Follow Casey's work: https://caseyhobbs.com/ https://twitter.com/caseyhobbs Joanne Goldblum is CEO and founder of the National Diaper Bank Network, encompassing more than 200 member organizations that provide diapers and other basic needs to families across America. In 2018, she founded the Alliance for Period Supplies, which provides free hygiene products to the one in four people for whom menstruation means difficulty attending school and work. Joanne has spent her career working with and advocating for families in poverty. She has written op-eds for The Washington Post, US News & World Report, and HuffPost. She has been an ABC Person of the Week and the subject of profiles by CNN, People, and many other outlets. Joanne is an inspiring and in-demand speaker. In 2007 she was chosen as one of 10 Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leaders on the basis of her work to found the New Haven Diaper Bank. Colleen Shaddox is a print and radio journalist and activist. Her publication credits include The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, America, and many more. She left daily newspapers when an editor reprimanded her for “writing too many stories about poor people” and went to work in a soup kitchen. She has had one foot in journalism and one in non-profits ever since. In states throughout the country, Colleen has worked on winning campaigns to get kids out of adult prisons, to end juvenile life without parole and to limit shackling in juvenile courts. She is a frequently anthologized fiction writer. Her award-winning play, The Shakespeares, and other dramatic works have been performed around the country. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/publictheologians/support

Seven Catholic plowshares activists entered Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia on April 4th, 2018. They went to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares.” The seven chose to act on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who devoted his life to addressing what he called the “triple evils of militarism, racism, and materialism.” Carrying hammers and baby bottles of their own blood, the seven attempted to convert weapons of mass destruction. They hoped to call attention to the ways in which nuclear weapons kill every day, by their mere existence and maintenance. One of those seven, Mark Colville (pictured back right), talks with Colleen Shaddox about his resistance to the weapons economy and his life at Amistad Catholic Worker House in New Haven, Connecticut. Mark talks about how he and his comrades argued that their Catholic faith compelled them to act against Trident - a defense that the jury was never allowed to hear. Now he looks forward to serving his sentence for the action. As he says, much of the Bible was written inside a prison - what better place to read it?

Nearly 40 million people in the U.S. live below the official poverty line—which in 2021 is just $26,000 for a family of four. But while poverty is all too often portrayed as a personal failure, it’s actually the result of bad public policy choices. Public policy has purposefully erected barriers that deny access to basic needs, creating a society where people can easily become trapped in poverty—not because we as a nation lack the resources to lift them out, but because we are actively choosing not to. This is the premise of a new book called Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty, which looks at many of the policy choices conspiring to keep people poor and offers a roadmap of solutions that would eradicate poverty in the U.S. Rebecca sat down with the authors, Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, for this week's pod. Get the book: https://benbellabooks.com/shop/brokeinamerica/ National Diaper Bank Network: nationaldiaperbanknetwork.org Alliance for Period Supplies: https://www.allianceforperiodsupplies.org/

Nearly 40 million people in the U.S. live below the official poverty line—which in 2021 is just $26,000 for a family of four. But while poverty is all too often portrayed as a personal failure, it’s actually the result of bad public policy choices. Public policy has purposefully erected barriers that deny access to basic needs, creating a society where people can easily become trapped in poverty—not because we as a nation lack the resources to lift them out, but because we are actively choosing not to. This is the premise of a new book called Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty, which looks at many of the policy choices conspiring to keep people poor and offers a roadmap of solutions that would eradicate poverty in the U.S. Rebecca sat down with the authors, Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, for this week's pod. Get the book: https://benbellabooks.com/shop/brokeinamerica/ National Diaper Bank Network: nationaldiaperbanknetwork.org Alliance for Period Supplies: https://www.allianceforperiodsupplies.org/

Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox talk to Jim about their book, Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty. They cover the “give a man fish” fallacy, poverty quicksand, two vs one-parent households, nurture vs nature, poverty’s impact on children, poverty definition & demographics, rural vs urban poverty, water access issues & pricing, malnutrition, low-cost food plan, time poverty, National … Continue reading EP121 Broke in America with Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox → The post EP121 Broke in America with Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox appeared first on The Jim Rutt Show.

March 25, 2021--Johanna Wildoak talks with Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox about their book Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty. They reframe poverty as a policy—not a people—problem, enabled by a litany of institutional obstacles.

Have you ever wondered why so many people are in poverty in a nation with so much wealth? Osha's guests, Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, authors of Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty, will bust the popular myths about poverty and show how we can end poverty by addressing the policies that create it. Nearly 40 million people in the United States live below the poverty line. Low-income families and individuals are everywhere, from cities to rural communities. While poverty is commonly seen as a personal failure or a deficiency of character or knowledge, it’s actually the result of bad policy.Public policy has purposefully erected barriers that deny access to basic needs, creating a society where people can easily become trapped—not because we lack the resources to lift them out, but because we are actively choosing not to. Poverty is close to inevitable for low-wage workers and their children, and a large percentage of these people, despite qualifying for it, do not receive government aid.In Broke in America, Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox offer an eye-opening and galvanizing look at life in poverty in this country: how circumstances and public policy conspire to keep people poor, and the concrete steps we can take to end poverty for good. In clear, accessible prose, Goldblum and Shaddox detail the ways the current system is broken and how it’s failing so many of us. They also highlight outdated and ineffective policies that are causing or contributing to this unnecessary problem.Every chapter features action items readers can use to combat poverty—both nationwide and in our local communities, including the most effective public policies you can support and how to work hand-in-hand with representatives to affect change. So far, our attempted solutions have fallen short because they try to “fix” poor people rather than address the underlying problems. Fortunately, it’s much easier to fix policy than people. Essential and timely, Broke in America offers a crucial roadmap for securing a brighter future for all Americans.

Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, co-authors of "Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending U.S. Poverty."

“Eleanor LeCain talks about understanding the resilience among people with few financial resources and ending poverty with Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, authors of Broke In America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty.”  

Poverty is not a character flaw, it is the inability to meet basic need with a low living wage — so says Colleen Shaddox, co-author of the book “Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty”. In the book, she talks about some of the issues: inability to meet basic needs, oppression of a […] The post What, why, and solutions to poverty in the U.S. appeared first on WORT 89.9 FM.

About 1 in 10 people — nationally and in Vermont — live below the poverty line. Low-income people are everywhere. There's a pernicious myth that poverty is a personal failure or a character flaw. The myth goes that if people were just willing to work harder, they could pull themselves up. The reality is that the vast majority of people in poverty are working. And poverty defies stereotypes. “The face of poverty in America is a white child,” says Joanne Goldblum, CEO and founder of the National Diaper Bank Network. Goldblum is co-author, with journalist Colleen Shaddox, of the new book, Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty. She notes that nearly half of American children are poor or low-income. The authors argue that poverty is not a personal failing, but the result of bad policy — and it can be solved. They provide a roadmap for the Biden administration to eradicate poverty for millions of Americans through policy changes.

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss their new book BROKE IN AMERICA: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U. S. Poverty. 

Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, authors of Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty, join Salaam and Jam to talk about their book. We had a great conversation about the myths surrounding poverty, why poverty still hasn't been eradicated, and so much more. Broke in America offers an eye-opening and galvanizing look at life in poverty in this country: how circumstances and public policy conspire to keep people poor, and the concrete steps we can take to end poverty for good. In clear, accessible prose, Goldblum and Shaddox detail the ways the current system is broken and how it's failing so many of us. They also highlight outdated and ineffective policies that are causing or contributing to this unnecessary problem. Every chapter features action items readers can use to combat poverty--both nationwide and in our local communities, including the most effective public policies you can support and how to work hand-in-hand with representatives to affect change. The book will be available in February 2021. Pre-orders available here: link --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejusticereport/message

This interview is a special KGNU pre-publication interview (the book comes out in February 2021 from The authors, Joanne Samuel Goldblum, (@jgoldblum), founder of the National Diaper Bank Network, and journalist Colleen Shaddox who argue that the systems that should protect our citizens are broken and that poverty results from flawed policies—compounded by racism, sexism, and other ills—rather than people’s “bad choices.” Federal programs for the poor often fall far short of their aims: The U.S. has only 36 affordable housing units available for every 100 extremely low-income families; roughly 1 in 3 households on Navajo reservations lack plumbing; and inadequate counsel by public defenders can lead to harsher penalties for crimes or time in “debtors’ prisons” for those unable to pay fines or court fees. An overarching problem is that the U.S. determines eligibility for government benefits with an outdated and “irrationally low” federal poverty level of $21,720 for a family of three, which doesn’t take into account necessities such as child care when women work outside the home. The authors credibly assert that it makes more sense to define poverty as an inability to afford basic needs in seven areas—“water, food, housing, energy, transportation, hygiene, and health”—each of which gets a chapter that draws on academic or other studies and interviews with people like a Baltimore resident who had to flush his toilet with bottled water after the city shut it off due to an unpaid bill. This plainspoken primer in the spirit of recent books like Anne Kim’s Abandoned and Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s Tightrope, Goldblum and Shaddox interweave macro analyses with examples of micro interventions that might work in any community. A Head Start teacher in Lytle, Texas, says her program saw benefits just from giving toothbrushes (and a chance to use them at a classroom sink) to children who had none at home: “They come here, and they scrub like there’s no tomorrow.”

Masks and MAGA hats are in. Candidate buttons and “poll watching” are out. You’ll see more, and younger, poll workers, and have more ways to vote. The results? Who knows when you’ll see them.  These are just a few of the realities of voting in Connecticut during the pandemic year of 2020. Secretary of the State Denise Merrill says she thinks that half of the votes cast this election could be by absentee ballot, a first for a state that’s traditionally made it hard to vote any other way than showing up on the first Tuesday in November. On this episode of Steady Habits she explains to host John Dankosky that safety will be a priority (masks at the polls are a must), and that you can track your registration and the status of your absentee ballot online. And, she tells me, it will be a long day for election officials dealing with both big turnouts and lots of mailed-in ballots to count. We also hear from writer Colleen Shaddox, who is joining a vigil to make sure that every vote is counted.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Putting a loved one in a nursing home is fraught with emotions and a common one is guilt. People are feeling a resurgence of that guilt now that their loved one is at higher risk. Dr. Kirsten Wilkins, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, talks with Colleen Shaddox about strategies you can use to help your elderly relatives – and yourself – cope during the pandemic.

Fear of becoming infected with COVID-19 is reasonable – especially now with plans announced to start reopening Connecticut. There are things you can do to take precautions. C-HIT's Colleen Shaddox talks with Rajita Sinha, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience at Yale and director of the Yale Stress Center, about how to take control and manage fear during the pandemic.

In this episode of the RS podcast, Heart in a Heartless World,, our guest is Colleen Shaddox, a devout Roman Catholic, a committed socialist, and a veteran healthcare journalist. Shaddox’s articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and many other outlets. Along with her co-author Joanne Goldblum, Shaddox just completed a book on the everyday lives of persons living in poverty and the broken policies that cause their suffering. Shaddox is interviewed in this episode by the Religion and Socialism Working Group member Fran Quigley. They discuss the connection between Catholicism and socialism, what socialism has to say about the COVID-19 pandemic and access to healthcare, what progressive Christians should be doing in response to reactionary Christianity, and Colleen’s interesting paths to Roman Catholicism, socialism, and writing about healthcare. “It’s Matthew 25, right?” Shaddox says. “You're supposed to feed the hungry and care for the sick, and we don't do that under capitalism.” Some of Colleen Shaddox’s healthcare journalism can be found here, and her book can be pre-ordered here. Look on our website for more about DSA’s Religion and Socialism Working Group.

A new federal “public charge” rule will make immigrants in the US legally chose between green cards and putting food on the table. Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox talk about things you can do in your own community to push back against this cruel policy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brokeinamerica/support

Poverty warriors Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox talk about the Clintonian overhaul of welfare that has pushed children into extreme poverty for decades. As always, they have opinions, strong ones, and question why the richest nation in the world embraces such a cruel public policy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brokeinamerica/support

One in three US families cannot afford the diapers their babies need. National Diaper Bank Network CEO Joanne Goldblum talks with journalist Colleen Shaddox about the economic and medical harm done by diaper need. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brokeinamerica/support

As a child, Colleen Shaddox loved hearing her uncle play jazz piano. Now her son is developing a love for the music that she believes unites her family even in the most troubling of times.

More than 34 million Americans provide unpaid care to an older adult every year, according to AARP. Managing an aging parent's health care can be complicated, logistically and emotionally. Experts say that talking about eldercare years before it's needed is key to making the task easier. Colleen Shaddox has the story. The Work Up is a production of the Connecticut Health Investigative Team. You can find more information about caring for an elderly parent at our website, c-hit.org. This podcast was produced with the support of Connecticare. For more information, visit connecticare.com. To learn about ConnectiCare's health insurance plans, visit chooseconnecticare.com.

Colleen Shaddox sits down with Roger Cohn, Managing Editor of e360, to discuss Yale's newest online magazine offering authoritative opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environmental issues.