“Connections” is on the road today with a live audience, discussing poverty in Rochester. The Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI) is holding a summit at MCC’s downtown campus, and we’re bringing the show to the event to examine why poverty is so intractable.
We explore different efforts to address poverty.
We meet one of the participants in the City of Rochester’s Guaranteed Basic Income program, and a single mother who has advocated on behalf of her family and others when it comes to developing strategies for lifting households out of poverty.
We discuss which initiatives have been successful and which have not – in nearly a decade of RMAPI.
Our guests:
- Maya Reagan, Rochester resident and GBI recipient
- Danielle Jones, parent, licensed mental health counselor, certified birth doula, and member of the Single Female Head of Household Cohort at the Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative
- Rev. Myra Brown, executive director of the Black Community Focus Fund, Inc., and pastor of Spiritus Christi Church
- Ashley Cross, Ed.D., founder and executive director of HOPE585
