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The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.

ENDEVR. (2022, November 6). The rise of the global super-rich and the fall of everyone else [Video]. YouTube.
This documentary describes how others have profited from poverty and the structures which support poverty in the United States and around the world. After watching this video, consider what these structures mean for our country, democracy, and those trying to rise out of poverty.

Lehrer, B. (Host). (2023, March 27). Set up to be poor [Audio podcast episode]. In The Brian Lehrer Show.
This podcast builds on the information from the ENDEVER documentary with an interview with Matthew Desmond who wrote the book ‘Poverty, by America.’ The author builds on the discussion of how poverty is beneficial to some by offering solutions to these problems, including expanding and fortifying particular social programs.