David Hilfiker — Seeing Poverty After Katrina

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On Being : David Hilfiker — Seeing Poverty After Katrina Image

David Hilfiker — Seeing Poverty After Katrina

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Hurricane Katrina brought urban poverty in America into all of our living rooms. In this program, David Hilfiker tells the story of how poverty and racial isolation came to be in cities across America. He lives creatively and realistically with questions many of us began to ask in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.