What is Poverty?; North Carolina Voices:Understanding Poverty; Christopher Rowland

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My birth given name is Christopher Rowland. Poverty to me is like racism. You can't be racist unless you have the power. So you can't have poverty unless someone has the power. Because we know in capitalism, to have winners you have to have losers. So for capitalism to work, for America to work, you have to have impoverished people. You have to have poverty. You have to have to suckers, for export.
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What is Poverty?
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North Carolina Voices:Understanding Poverty
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Christopher Rowland
Producing Organization
WUNC (Radio station : Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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WUNC (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
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Series Description
North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty is a series of reports, documentaries and call-in programs that aired on North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC in April 2005.
Clip Description
What is Poverty? tries to define poverty in North Carolina through first hand examples and scholarly discussions.
Broadcast Date
2005-04-00
Topics
Social Issues
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Copyright North Carolina Public Radio. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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00:00:36
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Credits
Executive Producer: Hanford, Emily
Guest: Rowland, Christopher
Producing Organization: WUNC (Radio station : Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC
Identifier: NCP9901/1-20 (WUNC)
Format: Audio CD
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Chicago: “What is Poverty?; North Carolina Voices:Understanding Poverty; Christopher Rowland,” 2005-04-00, WUNC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 26, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-515-p26pz52j6t.
MLA: “What is Poverty?; North Carolina Voices:Understanding Poverty; Christopher Rowland.” 2005-04-00. WUNC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 26, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-515-p26pz52j6t>.
APA: What is Poverty?; North Carolina Voices:Understanding Poverty; Christopher Rowland. Boston, MA: WUNC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-515-p26pz52j6t