Moving from Poverty to Self-Sufficiency

As a city of bridges, Pittsburgh has one of the Commonwealth’s 43 federally designated community action agencies mandated with the task of helping people move from poverty to self-sufficiency. Odell Richardson, Executive Director of Pittsburgh Community Services, Inc., talks with host Sheila Hyland about how they differ from the county program and how they help with employment, barriers like criminal records, and food insecurity. pghcsi.org