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Poverty: Beyond the Museum
[display_podcast] The Tenement Museum, like many other museums, identifies itself as an organization meant to educate about the past and infer for the future. Its tours not only reflect a long history of immigration on the Lower East Side, but also serve as a way to provoke thought about the continued role that immigration plays …