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Peter Edelman: What Democrats Did to Welfare Is Coming Back to Haunt Them

August 23, 2021 13 Comments

On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," the former Clinton administration official examines how Americans are still tormented by the specter of President Bill Clinton’s worst domestic policy failure.

Peter Edelman: Democrats Have Helped Criminalize Poverty in America (Part Two)

January 12, 2018 0 Comments

The Georgetown Law professor talks about his most recent book on the criminalization of poverty in America throughout the past decades.

Peter Edelman: It’s Not a Crime to Be Poor (Part One)

January 5, 2018 0 Comments

The director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality talks about how the criminal justice system continues the cycle of poverty in America.