Podcast appearances and mentions of greg kaufmann

Bob talks with longtime poverty correspondent, Greg Kaufmann, about the impact of COVID-19 on the poorest communities in this country. Set against the backdrop of an economic crisis and a bitter presidential election, there is a need to focus on those who are being left behind.

Rebecca sits down with Gbenga Ajilore and Greg Kaufmann for a deep-dive on why many rural communities—and the Black rural south in particular—are extra vulnerable amid the pandemic—and what we can do to ensure they aren’t left behind in our COVID response. Show notes: https://medium.com/@OffKilterShow/rural-america-meet-covid-19-3f4e32ace432

The Nation’s Greg Kaufmann on his recent article “Appalachia gets special funding. The black rural south deserves it too. PLUS: We mark Valentine’s Day for millionaires with Social Security Works’s Alex Lawson.

Inside the 2018 national prison strike with Amani Sawari of Jailhouse Lawyer Speaks; Greg Kaufmann on how a universal basic income found its way to Mississippi; plus the news of the week ICYMI.

This week on Off-Kilter, over the past 40 days, more than 2,000 people have been arrested across the country as part of nonviolent civil disobedience through the Poor People’s Campaign. Many of those activists came to DC this past Saturday to mark the completion of the campaign’s first phase as it continues the work that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others who founded the original Poor People’s Campaign began 50 years ago. Rebecca talks with Greg Kaufmann, editor in chief of TalkPoverty.org, about the activists fueling this growing movement and where it goes from here. Next, this week marks the 80th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which put in place the first-ever federal minimum wage and much more. But 80 years later, key parts of the law remain unchanged—including an obscure provision that allows people with disabilities to be paid pennies on the dollar for their labor. For a look at the history of the Fair Labor Standards Act—and how 80 years on, it’s still leaving workers with disabilities behind—Rebecca speaks with Rabia Belt, an assistant professor of law at Stanford Law School.  Later in the show, as June comes to a close, another Pride month is wrapping up. But the celebrations in places like San Francisco and New York look very different from those in places like rural Mississippi. In a state that helped put Mike Pence and his ideology into the White House, people like painter Jonathan Kent Adams are still finding ways to celebrate themselves and their communities. Rebecca (joined by David Ballard, one of Off-Kilter’s producers, in his on-air debut) talk with Jonathan about how he uses art as a tool for LGBTQ activism, what it was like growing up gay in rural Mississippi—and what marking Pride in the era of Trump looks like there. But first, the Supreme Court continues its all-out assault on workers with the Janus decision; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rides to victory running on a platform of universal health care, abolishing ICE, and more; Michigan Governor Snyder signs a cruel bill putting 700,000 Michiganders’ Medicaid at risk; and in a rare piece of good news, the Clean Slate Act—first-of-its-kind legislation to enable people with minor criminal records to have their records automatically sealed once they’ve remained crime-free—becomes law in Pennsylvania; and more… Jeremy Slevin returns to unpack the news of the week ICYMI. 

Listen to the March 2018 RESULTS U.S. Poverty National. On this month’s webinar, we spend time talking about how best to message our efforts at protecting anti-poverty programs from cuts and changes. We are pleased to have Greg Kaufmann of the Center for American Progress and Talkpoverty.org (and formerly of The Nation magazine) to share his messaging … Continue reading March 2018 U.S. Poverty National Webinar – Using the March Recess to Protect Food Assistance and Health Care

When Senator-elect Doug Jones addressed his supporters Tuesday night in Alabama, one of his first shout-outs went to his African-American supporters. As well it should have been – with exit polls showing that 30% of the voters in Tuesday's special election were black, even beating the record-high black turnout in the 2012 presidential election. To unpack what was behind the wave of black turnout – and what Democrats can learn from it – I'm joined by Michele Jawando, Vice President of Legal Progress at the Center for American Progress and host of Thinking CAP, Off-Kilter's sister podcast. Later in the show, while Trump and his colleagues in Congress try to push tax cuts for billionaires and wealthy corporations over the finish line without a single democratic vote, they're not even trying to hide what comes next: cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Meals on Wheels and more – in the name of “welfare reform.” To discuss the role of language in debates around cutting these and other critical programs, Rebecca talks with Greg Kaufmann, editor in chief of TalkPoverty.org, and Kate Gallagher Robbins, Director of Family Policy at the Center for American Progress.

Bob Herbert discusses some of the biggest issues surrounding poverty with Greg Kaufmann, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and the editor-in-chief of the website, TalkPoverty.org.