the author now, michael weinstein. >> thank you. our other panelists is former chief executive officer of the national public radio, a former litigator in washington dc. he served as deputy general counsel or the clinton-gore administration in 1990 for the campaign. he has and the senior adviser to the director of the international broadcasting bureau and in his eight and a half year tenure at npr, they were known to strengthen the stability in part from the 200 million-dollar gift and he is the reason author of charity for all. why charities are failing in a better way to manage it. okay, so let me get this started by indicating to you in about a year and a half ago tucson was in a study in the six poorest metropolitan areas in the united states. we are now eight and i would like to take credit for that. but i'm not sure that a couple other cities haven't already done that. but the good thing about it is that the community has now begun to focus on how to best address the issue of poverty systematically. we live in a time when we k