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Global Ethics Forum Preview: Extreme Poverty in the United States, with Philip Alston
4 minutes Posted Apr 5, 2018 at 9:04 am.
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Next time on Global Ethics Forum, the UN's Philip Alston discusses poverty in the United States and the dark side of American exceptionalism. In this excerpt, Alston tells journalist Stephanie Sy about a shocking example of extreme poverty in Alabama and why it persists in 21st century America.