Do you think that what poor people most need to escape poverty is grit? Join us as we speak with
Stefanie Deluca, co-author, along with
Susan Clampet-Lundquist and
Kathryn Edin, of
Coming of Age in the Other America (Russell Sage Foundation, 2016), about their decade-long research project tracking the ambitions and activities of 150 black Baltimore youth born in the 1980s and 1990s to parents living in high-rise public housing. The results -- and the implications -- will likely surprise you as much as it did them.
Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians (New Press, 2004)
, A Peoples History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008)
, winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford, 2017).