Aug 16, 2016
Many times it is difficult to really understand the plight of any group of people without insight into what life is really like for them. Inspired by conversation Mona overheard on a city bus, this week's episode explores the issue of homelessness. Jeff and Mona discuss attempt to provide a new perspectives on stereotypes and false rhetoric associated with homelessness. They also touch on social services like welfare. This episode closes out with a round of 10 questions.
Homelessness Conversation (00:31)
10 (15) Questions Segment (51:10)
RELEVANT LINKS
From Our Homelessness Conversation
- Asking Strangers For Food VS Asking The Homeless For Food! - Social Experiment (YouTube Video)
- Homelessness Demographic Stats (interactive report)
- Causes Of Homelessness
- Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness By 91 Percent; Here's How (Article)
- Your Assumptions About Welfare Recipients Are Wrong (article)
- 7 Lies About Welfare That Many People Believe Are Fact (article)
- A Christian Response to War – Finding A Third Way – 002 (Irenicast Episode)
- The Daily Show - Jon Stewart Returns to Shame Congress (YouTube Clip)
- Morality v Working Hard (article)
- Hunger in America – Interview with Allison Bovell – 035 (Irenicast Episode)
- Rishi Manchanda: What makes us get sick? (TED Talk)
- The Magic Bureaucrat and His Riverside Miracle (99% Invisible Podcast Episode on Welfare)
- The Stories Behind the Rhetoric – An Interview with Immigration Lawyer Amber Heffner – 051 (Irenicast Episode)
Our 10 Questions was also played in Irenicast Episode #009
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Thank you to Mike Golin for our intro and outro music. Check out his band Soulwise.
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