Poverty
Public policy can’t fix poverty
Perhaps more accurately, “Poverty policy can’t fix poverty.”
“But Brian Riedl, senior federal budget analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation,
said the automatic stabilizing effects of these programs remained
strong. ”Antipoverty spending is at its highest level in American
history,“ he said.”
Policies can look prohibitively expensive when packaged under the ever-growing poverty banner.
Activists inspired to fight poverty
“Murray and other local residents who attended the summit pointed to
education, access to sustainable housing and transportation as key
issues in the battle against poverty.”
The summit could have done better to inspire activists to fight FOR education, access to sustainable housing and transportation.
King III: US must address poverty
“If we will be a great nation,” he said, in an oratory reminiscent of
his father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “let us not be satisfied until
we have education, decent jobs, a living wage, adequate and affordable
health care and decent housing.”
King III is apparently unaware that these issues and measures are not included in the US definition of poverty.
Summit starts long road to combat poverty
“There’s a reason poor people are often described as ”mired in poverty.“
To be ”mired“ is to be stuck in something that’s hard to get out of,
and that’s sure true of poverty.”
Kinda like how policy solutions are mired in a sympathy frame?
Where Obama Can Be Bold
I bet I can guess where Obama will lose if he is bold. (I’ll give you a hint: it rhymes with “noverty”.)
Working poor still fall short
“The report calls for stronger policies for working families at both the state and federal level.”
Look for sister article next week, “Stronger ‘poor’ policies still fall short.”
Wages, Dreams, Preparedness
A Living Law?
“Why should employees have to fill out complaints or file
lawsuits to get the city to obey a city law?”
How else is The Man supposed to keep low-wage workers down?
Can more spending revive the American Dream?
“Traditionally, Americans have had extraordinarily optimistic views of
the economic prospects for themselves and their children. This may be
one reason they have tolerated in the past 30 years a major
redistribution of income in the nation to the top 1 or 2 percent of its
citizens from those with lower incomes.”
As
L. Frank Baum wrote, ‘Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and
the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.’ That is, unless
they don’t.
Retraining program gets $450K
“Developing our workforce to be better prepared for jobs today and
tomorrow is one our community’s highest priorities,” said Kathryn
Merchant, Greater Cincinnati Foundation president.“