4 OUT OF 5 IN U.S.IN POVERTY OR NEAR POVERTY-AUDIO

FROM IAN MASTER'S BACKGROUND BRIEFING

Then finally we speak with Tom Hirschl, a Professor of Sociology at Cornell University and Director of the Population and Development Program. We discuss the new report that he worked on for the Associated Press that finds 4 out of 5 U.S. adults struggling with joblessness and near poverty in an economy in which President Obama says the income gap is fraying America’s social fabric.