Stop Throwing Breakfast Sandwiches at the Poor: Brandale Randolph at TEDxTexasTechUniversity

Not all poverty is the same. Brandale speaks on his experiences with the impoverished and his concept that the failure to understand the different forms of poverty and the attempts by social advocates to find new blanket definitions of the issue are the primary reason why poverty continues to grow to the detriment of our society. If culture were to instead re-examine poverty through various components, we could more accurately define and address poverty among a target demographic and, in this way, could reduce its effect on that demographic effectively.

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