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Brookings explores a new shift in poverty, and "Snob Zones" keep people out.
Broadcast on: 05/21/2013

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A Passenger’s Account From the Derailed Metro-North Train  - 05/20/13
The derailment and subsequent collision of a Metro-North train could have been much worse. Despite more than 70 injuries and major inconveniences for commuters, nobody died in the accident. On this morning’s episode of Where We Live, we ta... read more
Coming Up! May 20 to 24, 2013  - 05/17/13
Monday: A Slower Than Usual Commute The derailment of a Metro-North train on Friday evening resulted in dozens of injuries and threw this week’s commute into disarray. We’ll check in with reporters who are covering the state’s response to t... read more
“Can we really blame (teenagers) for not being concerned with politics?”  - 05/16/13
Today’s show asked a question that has entered many minds over the years: What’s government good for? That feeling is understandable, especially this week (the IRS scandal, the Justice Department secretly collecting phone records from AP re... read more
 

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Stephen D. Ramsey, Yale University
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Luis Figueroa, Trinity College
Susan Eaton, Research Director
keith Hatschek, University of the Pacific
John Brittain, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Mark K. McQuillan, Connecticut State Department of Education
Carol Carson, Connecticut Office of State Ethics
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