Before the children's express : at the Democratic Convention / Jonathan Kozol.

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Before the children's express : at the Democratic Convention / Jonathan Kozol.
PRA Archive #: 
KZ1734
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Speech by Jonathan Kozol, author of Rachel and Her Children. He has spent a great deal of time at the new York Hotel called Marinique, where homeless children live and die. Kozol points to the growing problem with homeless children across the United States, and blames shortsighted Reagan policies for this social problem. 500,000 children are homeless in the United States, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. Specific Reagan policies which have increased this number include: cutting food stamps, dropping medicaid for 600,000, expluding 1,000,000 from nutriition programs, lost pre-natal care, lead poisoning owing to the lead-based paints used in shelters. The only crime these homeless children have committeed is to be born in the United States.|BEFORE THE CHILDREN'S EXPRESS : AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION / Jonathan Kozol. - Speech by Jonathan Kozol, author of Rachel and Her Children. He has spent a great deal of time at the new York Hotel called Marinique, where homeless children live and die. Kozol points to the growing problem with homeless children across the United States, and blames shortsighted Reagan policies for this social problem. 500,000 children are homeless in the United States, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. Specific Reagan policies which have increased this number include: cutting food stamps, dropping medicaid for 600,000, expluding 1,000,000 from nutriition programs, lost pre-natal care, lead poisoning owing to the lead-based paints used in shelters. The only crime these homeless children have committeed is to be born in the United States. - RECORDED: 1988.

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1988.
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1 reel (17 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., mono.|17:00
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Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1988.
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