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Patricia Jackson from FIRSTHAND: Living in Poverty
FIRSTHAND Living In Poverty In FIRSTHAND: Living in Poverty, streaming at wttw.com/poverty and on the
PBS app beginning January 18, we meet five people who are experiencing intergenerational poverty, to better understand the daily challenges that make their circumstances difficult to escape. FIRSTHAND executive producer Dan Protess takes us behind the scenes to learn more about the project.
Q: This is the third topic covered by the FIRSTHAND team. Why did you decide to focus the FIRSTHAND lens on poverty? 4
JANUARYÂ 2021
Dan Protess: We chose the topic in the
spring of 2020 when the COVID-19 crisis was both exposing and exacerbating income inequality. We were hearing awful stories about Americans who had to choose between going hungry and going to workplaces where they would almost certainly get sick. This seemed like the
