Taped: 06/08/2006. New York these days is a tale of two cities. Wall street bonuses are eye popping, the average apartment cost more than a million dollars, and it seems that there is a new apartment building going up on every corner. Yet not everyone is feeling so flush. Many people have simply given up looking for jobs and many of those who work make so little that they are living below the poverty line. They’ve joined the ranks of what we call the working poor. What is the city’s obligation to its poor? If we increase the amount of public assistance does that increase their dependency? Harvey Robbins, former official of the Koch and Dinkins administration, explains the scope of New York City’s poverty problems. U$A Inc, currently not running on CUNY TV, offered a unique opportunity for senior members of the business community to share their thoughts on important business issues with a broad-based New York audience. While many business shows today seem focused on generating sound bites and tend to treat business as if it were a blood sport, U$A Inc allows for deeper discussion of the complex philosophical and ethical issues arising almost daily in the business world. Host: Sarah Bartlett, Bloomberg Chair in Business Journalism at the Master’s Program in Business Journalism at Baruch College. Watch more at www.cuny.tv/series/usainc