Vox (5/27/16) reported on FAIR’s research on the lack of questions on poverty in the Democratic debates:
The moderators of the Democratic presidential debates did not ask a single question about poverty in any of the nine contests held over seven months, according to a new report released Friday.
The candidates themselves brought up poverty a total of 17 times, but the topic wasn’t raised once by any of the debate hosts, says media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)….
FAIR argues that the lack of questions about poverty is a particularly glaring oversight, given that the Democratic primary has been largely defined by discussions of wealth inequality and economic stagnation — and given that extreme poverty has increased over the past several years, at least according to some accounts.
