Extras
FIRSTHAND Talks: Mark Jay, PhD
Jay examines how mass incarceration and police violence overwhelmingly targets the poor.
FIRSTHAND Talks: Mark Jay, PhD
Juan Salgado explores an often-overlooked pathway out of poverty: community colleges.
FIRSTHAND Talks: Juan Salgado
Scott explores why poverty persists in spite of the "War on Poverty" launched in 1964.
FIRSTHAND Talks: Ebony Scott
FIRSTHAND Talks: Calvin Holmes
Calvin Holmes explains how the cycle of poverty can be broken with long-term investment.
FIRSTHAND Talks: Calvin Holmes
Wilson explores the myth that people in poverty made personal choices that put them there.
FIRSTHAND Talks: Audra Wilson
FIRSTHAND: Living in Poverty – Trailer
The summer and fall of 2020 through the eyes of five people living in poverty in Chicago.