Patrick McCarthy on the Increasing Struggles of America's Working Families - The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Patrick McCarthy on the Increasing Struggles of America's Working Families

Posted January 17, 2012
By the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Speech mccarthyatspotlight 2012

Four years after a call to arms to fight pover­ty dur­ing the his­toric elec­tion of 2008, the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion’s Pres­i­dent and CEO Patrick McCarthy calls for increased aware­ness of dis­ad­van­taged chil­dren dur­ing a wel­com­ing speech at the Spot­light on Pover­ty and Oppor­tu­ni­ty forum in Jan­u­ary 2012.

Patrick’s remarks segued into a larg­er dis­cus­sion on the increas­ing strug­gles of Amer­i­can fam­i­lies to make ends meet – par­tic­u­lar­ly the low­er one-third of U.S. fam­i­lies – and how their trou­bles affect­ed the polit­i­cal dis­course dur­ing the 2012 pres­i­den­tial election.

Read a tran­script of McCarthy’s remarks on the pol­i­tics of eco­nom­ic opportunity

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