For our last episode of season 5, we’re joined by Adam Green, a professor who wrote the introduction to Robert Sargent Shriver's posthumous memoir. The main focus of the conversation is Shriver’s work to end poverty in America, and what we can learn from it. In addition to telling us how the book came to be, Green highlights some of the programs and initiatives that made up the “war on poverty” and addresses how we’re tackling poverty differently now than we have in the past.

Our second guest, Kate Breslin of the Schuyler Center, chats about her hopes for the New York state budget: more childcare subsidies and funding to increase the pay for childcare workers. She also talks about the enduring legacy of the Schuyler Center and how they hope to cut child poverty in half by 2030.

For more detailed show notes and a full transcript, see the Invisible Americans website.The Invisible Americans Podcast is a non-profit communications organization. Its mission is to end child poverty. The podcast is hosted by Carol Jenkins and David Ambroz.Music for this and all episodes is provided by Bridget St. John. Audio editing by Sylvester P. Lukasiewicz. Show notes and transcript by Amy Yoder.

From the Mississippi Delta to the State of New York to Wakanda, our guests today talk diapers, child care, and paying it forward.

First up, Chelesa Presley shares she saw a need in her community and took steps to fill it by creating a diaper bank in Mississippi. The services have grown from just their storefront, now taking steps to help families in need through product and policy.

Then Dede Hill of the Schuyler Center gives an update on child care assistance in New York and shares hope for universal child care up to age 13.

We close with Frederick Joseph, who started his first GoFundMe to raise money to take kids to see Black Panther. He ended up creating a record-breaking campaign that has touched more than 700,000 lives.

For more detailed show notes and a full transcript, see the the Invisible Americans website.The Invisible Americans Podcast is a non-profit communications organization. Its mission is to end child poverty. The podcast is hosted by Co-Presidents Jeff Madrick and Carol Jenkins.Music for this and all episodes is provided by Bridget St. John. Audio editing by Sylvester P. Lukasiewicz. Show notes and transcript by Amy Yoder.

Showcasing Ways to Show Up: Longitudinal storytelling,

a million families connected to food resources,

and a foster care dorm 20 years in the making

In the third episode of this season, we start by talking with Emmy-nominated journalist Lauren Mucciolo about her 14-year project, Born Poor. She and her team showed authentic stories of experiencing, growing up, and being generationally poor.

Then co-founder and CEO of Lemontree Kasumi Quinlan shares how she took it upon herself to answer a simple question: Why do folks not use the resources available to them? The answer: They don’t know how to access them. With just her personal cell phone and a huge vision, she created a platform to connect those in need with those providing help.

We close the show with our co-host David Ambroz sharing the project he has been working on for two decades. It’s a brick-and-mortar foster care dorm unit at a college in LA. The path from foster care to homelessness is well-trodden, but David hopes to offer the young adults in this dorm a different way home.

For more detailed show notes and a full transcript, see the Invisible Americans website.The Invisible Americans Podcast is a non-profit communications organization. Its mission is to end child poverty. The podcast is hosted by Co-Presidents Jeff Madrick and Carol Jenkins.Music for this and all episodes is provided by Bridget St. John. Audio editing by Sylvester P. Lukasiewicz. Show notes and transcript by Amy Yoder.