Fighting Poverty with Money

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Councilmember Bill DeBlasio (D-Brooklyn), Chairman of the General Welfare Committee, on the Mayor's initiative to pay poor people to get medical care and do well in school and Santiago Levy, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and the former deputy finance minister of Mexico on a similar plan that was used in his country.

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