New poverty : are we really better off than we were / Michael Harrington ; produced by Helene Rosenbluth. **The

Michael Harrington, Professor of Political Science at New York’s Queens College and author of The New American Poverty, gives the keynote address at the Poverty, Equality, and Justice Conference. Harrington discusses the role of the new working class, unemployment, youth, the homeless, and the feminization of poverty. He examines why there are 9 million more…