Dr. Tom: Poverty …

I’ve got a really strange idea and here is how it happened. I read a news report about Ben Carson, our secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in which he was quoted as saying that poverty is a state of mind. I took that to mean that poor people are to blame for their own poverty. It was no surprise then, when I received my weekly email from TED that one of their talks caught my eye with the title: “Poverty isn’t a lack of character; it’s a lack of cash.” I encourage you to spend 18 minutes watching […]

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