America Lost - Looking at the most impoverished cities

This week Chris Rufo of the Documentary Foundation and the director of the eye-opening documentary, America Lost. Chris shares what he learned in his travels through America's most impoverished cities. The stories and the lives captured will change how you view poverty.
We are also honoring a free showing. If you are interested in learning more visit our site at:
GeorgiaOpportunity.org/America-lost

[@vancesnyder2426]

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[@GeorgiaopportunityOrg]

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[@reneegaytan9020]

We kicked God out of the public schools so at least 50 years ago the kids could get moral Christian values at school if not available in the home. I remember every morning we said the pledge of allegiance to the flag which supported patriotism and then we said a prayer as a class and that was PUBLIC schools! Worst problem we had was chewing gum in the class!!

[@GoogleIdentity331]

Just spit-balling here, but might the economic degradation in Youngstown have something to do with the fact that all the steel and auto manufacturers decided to stop employing people? This is all transparently ideological twaddle.

[@themiddleclasseconomist5128]

rfweber--Exactly. I was a VP of manufacturing. And spent a lot of time in these cities and many others JUST LIKE THEM. When they moved all the jobs out in the 1980's thru today, fathers no longer could provide for the families. Either Move (If you could) or you turn to crime. Families without gainfully employed fathers, disintegrate QUICKLY--that is what happened in these cities and cities across the country. These guys seemed to have missed the Root cause staring them right in the face. They want to blame the families and LAID OFF fathers and mothers and children born into poverty. THEY DON'T WANT TO BLAME THE REAL CULPRITS. it could hurt there funding. "Poverty is the mother of all crime '--Marcus Aurelius------M

[@GoogleIdentity331]

this is the kind of absurd analysis you get from wholesale, unthinking adoption of say's law (probably without every even understanding say's law let alone why it is not, in fact, a law)