Black Males Left Behind. One reason for maintaining optimism is that so few serious attempts to help poor fathers have been made. |
For the last four years, the picture, especially for low-income Americans, has gotten worse. |
It should be something that we need to be watching carefully. You just need to make sure it's being done fairly. |
The proposals make sense to me. |
There are people at the bottom who are worse off. We need to do something about that. |
They come here ready, willing and able to work and they do it. |
This is not a mistake. It was the explicit intent of Congress to expand coverage to working families. The original sin of social policy was tying Medicaid directly to welfare. Now, it's tied to working. |
Three years after a recession we're still having trouble getting into a recovery. I would have expected poverty to go down. |