Wow. NPR is being semi-honest about poverty.

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Noah Adams is doing another one of his stories about low paid jobs. Last summer he did one about how fun it was to work at a horse track for low pay, and then he did one about acting in one of those wild west reenactment shows for low pay, and he made it sound fun.

Well, I haven't heard one of these segments in a while, but after hearing today's, I think Barbara Ehrenreich must have bitched Noah Adams out, because todays' had no discernable (by me) editorial slant.

It was just a straightforward story about a woman who lives in rural Maine. Sh works seasonally for a school picture photographser. She's 41 year old with two kids, divorced three years, and she makes 10-12 thousand bucks a year. Some days she has to drive two hours to work. There was only one "isn't this fun moment" in the story, which was followed by telling us that her coworkers pooled money for her to buy new tires.

Mostly, the woman talked about how hard life was.

However, this story was then juxtaposed with an interview with a Newsweek reporter (I think) who reported on research which concluded that it was good to be married (it makes life easier). Which begs the question, then why do we give them tax breaks on their pooled income just for being married!?

So I gues, in the end, it turns out that NPR can only report the truth about poverty if they follow it up with a story about how poverty could be solved if these unmarried 41 year old mothers just got maried.

[kanrok]

1. Geez

Let's have Noah Adams go down to Mississippi and work a 10 hour shift filleting catfish in one of those processing plants. Then let's ask him how much "fun" he had in that soul-numbing task.

[KG]

2. further proof its time to defund NPR.

:grr:

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3. I just read that it's marriage protection week, which explains these two..

stories.

Part of the celebration, I guess.