Kaufmann Signs Off to Go Fight Poverty

http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/13/a-journalist-signs-off-to-go-fight-poverty/

The conditions for an antipoverty movement now exist: when more than one in three Americans are living below twice the poverty line (below about $36,500 for a family of three) — unable to pay for the basics like food, housing, healthcare, education, and unable to save — something’s got to give. When 95 percent of the economic gains are going to the top 1 percent, and more than 60 percent to the top .1 percent — the potential is there to unite the majority of people who are being denied an opportunity to get ahead.