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Title:

Poverty outlaw [videorecording] / produced and directed by Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy in association with the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Skylight Pictures,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Welfare recipients--Philadelphia.--Philadelphia.
Poor--Philadelphia.--Philadelphia.
Welfare rights movement--Philadelphia.--Philadelphia.
Kensington Welfare Rights Union--History.
Poor women--Philadelphia.--Philadelphia.
Women--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Economic conditions.
Women--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Social conditions.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.
Documentary films.

Other Authors:

Yates, Pamela.
Kinoy, Peter.
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Skylight Pictures (Firm)

Notes:

Maggie Low (voice of the woman).

Summary:

Documentary from the point-of-view of Philadelphia welfare recipients, showing some of the devastating effects of welfare reform. Chronicles the growth of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a group of welfare recipients organizing to protest the cuts in their benefits and to work toward better living conditions for poor people who live in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70224006

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)