{"id":21717,"date":"2019-03-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=67fe90ab99cf17dced5ad2ccb373856f"},"modified":"2019-03-19T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T07:00:00","slug":"why-is-getting-out-of-poverty-so-hard-with-felicia-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/03\/19\/why-is-getting-out-of-poverty-so-hard-with-felicia-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is getting out of poverty so hard? (with Felicia Wong)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>Here are two phrases that should be oxymorons, but aren\u2019t: \u2018working poor\u2019 and \u2018poverty-level jobs.\u2019 Writer and anti-poverty advocate Hanna Brooks Olsen joins Nick and Goldy to explore how the intense burdens of poverty make it nearly impossible to even think about climbing the economic ladder.\u00a0<\/p><p>Felicia Wong is the President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank that seeks to re-imagine the social and economic policies of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt for the 21st century.\u00a0<\/p><p>Twitter: @FeliciaWongRI @rooseveltinst<\/p><p>Hanna Brooks Olsen is a writer and policy consultant. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Nation, Salon, the New York Daily News, the Huffington Post, and Democracy.<\/p><p>Twitter: @mshannabrooks<\/p><p>Further reading:<\/p><p>https:\/\/medium.com\/@mshannabrooks\/but-seriously-lets-talk-about-millennial-poverty-526066ad9adb<\/p><p>https:\/\/aspe.hhs.gov\/system\/files\/pdf\/154286\/50YearTrends.pdf<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Here are two phrases that should be oxymorons, but aren\u2019t: \u2018working poor\u2019 and \u2018poverty-level jobs.\u2019 Writer and anti-poverty advocate Hanna Brooks Olsen joins Nick and Goldy to explore how the intense burdens of poverty make it nearly impossibl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21718,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21717\/revisions\/21718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}