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This short film will help you understand the homeless and poverty crisis from the inside-out—what drives it, what perpetuates it, and why nothing seems to help. Center Director Christopher Rufo breaks down the dominant narrative and explain how cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles can spend billions of dollars per year on homelessness, but there are more tents on the streets than ever.
Christopher Rufo is the director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. He has directed four documentaries for PBS, Netflix, and international television, including his latest film, America Lost, that tells the story of three "forgotten American cities.” Christopher is currently a contributing editor of City Journal, where he covers poverty, homelessness, addiction, crime, and other afflictions. Christopher is a magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow, and has appeared on NPR, CNN, ABC, CBS, HLN, FOX News & more.
Center on Wealth & Poverty - discovery.org/econ
The mission of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty is to connect the practical truths of economics with the perennial truths of ethics. We are building a sustained and accessible defense of free enterprise, entrepreneurship, and stewardship in the moral categories consonant with most Americans.
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This short film will help you understand the homeless and poverty crisis from the inside-out—what drives it, what perpetuates it, and why nothing seems to help. Center Director Christopher Rufo breaks down the dominant narrative and explain how cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles can spend billions of dollars per year on homelessness, but there are more tents on the streets than ever.
Christopher Rufo is the director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. He has directed four documentaries for PBS, Netflix, and international television, including his latest film, America Lost, that tells the story of three "forgotten American cities.” Christopher is currently a contributing editor of City Journal, where he covers poverty, homelessness, addiction, crime, and other afflictions. Christopher is a magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow, and has appeared on NPR, CNN, ABC, CBS, HLN, FOX News & more.
Center on Wealth & Poverty - discovery.org/econ
The mission of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty is to connect the practical truths of economics with the perennial truths of ethics. We are building a sustained and accessible defense of free enterprise, entrepreneurship, and stewardship in the moral categories consonant with most Americans.
Other videos you will like:
Chaos by the Bay: The Truth About Homelessness in San Francisco
San Francisco has become plagued by homelessness, addiction, and property crime. In this short documentary, I investigate what went wrong—how one of the world's most prosperous cities has become a haven of public disorder.
youtu.be/uw8MACDZ3RI
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youtu.be/dtl4fAIHaDo
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Discovery Institute promotes thoughtful analysis and effective action on local, regional, national and international issues. The Institute is home to an inter-disciplinary community of scholars and policy advocates dedicated to the reinvigoration of traditional Western principles and institutions and the worldview from which they issued. Discovery Institute has a special concern for the role that science and technology play in our culture and how they can advance free markets, illuminate public policy and support the theistic foundations of the West.
For more information about the mission and program of Discovery Institute:
discovery.org
Follow Discovery Institute on Facebook and Twitter:
Twitter: @DiscoveryInst1 twitter.com/DiscoveryInst1
Facebook: facebook.com/thediscoveryinstitute
