The poor were missing from the conversation at both national conventions.
Melissa Harris-Perry
In 2011, nearly 5.7 percent of Americans struggled to put food on the table. But with an overwhelming focus on the middle class at both national conventions, rising poverty went largely unmentioned. Nation columnist Melissa Harris-Perry and Nation blogger Ari Melber ask, Why has a real conversation about America’s poor been mostly missing from this election?
—Christie Thompson
Melissa Harris-PerryTwitterMelissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair and Professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs and the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University. She is also the co-host of The Nation’s System Check podcast.