Obama's Quiet Fight Against Poverty

By VideoNation

June 11, 2009

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At a the forum "Obama at 100: A Progress Report from The Nation" held on April 21, 2009 Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change, lauded the early progress the Obama administration has made in reversing forty years of neglect for the poor. While Bhargava, an editorial board member at The Nation, made clear that the devastating scope of the recession has mitigated the impact of the reforms, he concluded that, "Boy, it is a new day in Washington."

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