Lisbeth Schorr - Fighting Poverty: Early Interventions That Work - 10/05/89

Lisbeth Schorr is a lecturer in Social Medicine and Health Policy at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Harvard University Working Group on Early Life. With her husband, journalist Daniel Schorr, she co-authored Within Our Reach, an analysis of effective social policies and programs aimed at breaking the cycle of inter-generational poverty, which threatens to create a permanent American underclass. In the Johnson and Carter administrations, she headed national efforts to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and families.