Radio 2

Name: Renee Manders
ID code: 1569490
Class:


Radio 2
Title of programme: Assignment
Broadcast by BCC world service
Date: 16th February
Duration: 25 minutes

Subject:
Assignment examines what it means to be poor in the richest country in the world; America


Summary:

The economic downturn in the USA is seeing a resurgence in poverty.
Around 47 million people are affected, more than at anytime in the last half century. BBC's Hilary Andersson explores America's underworld of poverty where people live in storm drains and tented camps and where children go hungry. In all theses places, she speaks with people who experienced the fall down from a very close view.

This image of America's poor sits uncomfortably with the notion of America as the richest, and fairest, country in the world. Hilary concludes that the world economic powerhouse has a sickness; it can’t fully admit it’s poverty, and it is certainty not dealing with it.