Finally, the media realizes that the poor are impacted by the recession, too.
Finally, after all of my concern, conveyed through blogs like this one, about how the media isn’t covering the recession from the perspective of those hit the hardest—the poor—this is exactly the article I’ve been waiting to see for months to see!
Leave it to Barbara Ehrenreich to remind us all that there are some who are "Too Poor to Make The News."
Gwen Rubinstein is a Program Officer at The Women’s Foundation.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Good catch, Gwen!
It is pretty phenomenal that those in poverty are often left out of traditional media coverage of the recession. Seems to be that they are often the people impacted the most by economic downturns. I’m glad the Times has taken note.