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Katrina Uncovers: Poverty in a Land of Plenty
January 11, 2006
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Making Contact takes a look at poverty in the United States. We explore homelessness, economic injustice, and a dwindling federal safety net that has left millions of Americans in dire straits. For many people, Hurricane Katrina was a wakeup call to a long-standing problem: why is there so much poverty in a land of plenty?
Featuring:
Madelyn Goodwin and Carolyn McClendon, Mothers for Justice; John DeStefano, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut; Doug Hall, Connecticut Voices for Children; Bill Villano, Regional Workforce Development Board; Ed Mattison, New Haven Board of Aldermen; Alison Cunningham, Columbus House; Sheila Allen Bell, New Haven Community Services; Shirley Jones and Carolyn Bauman, New Orleans residents; Karen Mason, New Orleans social worker; Russell Henderson, professor at Dillard University; Curtis Muhammad, People's Hurricane Relief Fund; Kalamu Yasalam, New Orleans writer and educator; Karen Olson-Mason and Kelly Delgado, Hurricane Katrina evacuees; Theresa Higgins Brown, Yesler Terrace resident; Tom Tierney, Seattle Housing Authority; John Fox, Seattle Displacement Coalition; Yolanda Singay, Community Coalition for Environmental Justice; Tom, former business owner and family man who is now widowed and homeless.
This week's host/producer: Tena Rubio.
Contributing producers: Christian Roselund, Martha Baskin, Melinda Tuhus.
For more information:
Common Ground
1415 Franklin Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70114
www.commongroundrelief.org
People's Hurricane Relief Fund
100 Bourbon Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
1-888-310-7473
www.communitylaborunited.net
Emergency Communities
139 Emerson Pl, Suite 001
Brooklyn, NY 11205
917-442-8900
www.emergencycommunities.org
Habitat for Humanity
Partner Service Center--Habitat for Humanity International
121 Habitat St.
Americus, GA 31709-3498
229-924-6935
Seattle Displacement Coalition
4554 12th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105
206-632-0668
www.zipcon.net/~jvf4119/
Seattle Housing Authority
120 6th Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98121
206-615-3300
www.seattlehousing.org
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice
2820 East Cherry Street
Seattle, WA 98122
206-720-5241
www.ccej.org
Plymouth Housing Group
2209 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
206-267-4720
www.plymouthhousing.org
National Alliance to End Homelessness
1518 K Street NW, Suite 410
Washington, D.C. 20005
202-638-1526
www.endhomelessness.org