From the Vault 242: The Criminalization of Poverty

This week on From the Vault, we examine historical dialogue concerning the disparity between the rich and the poor in America. In 1992, writer and activist Sabina Virgo delivered a compelling address called “The Criminalization of Poverty,” which outlined how American economic policy and deregulation created enormous wealth for corporate America, but at the same time drove many Americans into poverty. First we listen to a November 2010 conversation between Pacifica Radio Archives Director Brian DeShazor and Sabina Virgo about the realities of living in a post-Reagan America and how things have only gotten worse almost 20 years later….

From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.