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President Volodmyr Zelenskyy: The Trump Peace Plan
“President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that Ukraine has to confront the possibility of losing its dignity or risking the loss of a key partner as it figures out how to respond to a U.S. peace proposal to end Russia-Ukraine conflict. (Produced by Elaine Carroll).” Source:Associated Press with a look at President Volodmyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine. […]
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Tag Archives: Poverty in America
The New America Foundation: Lara Burt- TANF and Teachers: How Current Policies Are Keeping Single Mothers Down & Out of School
Source:The New Democrat It’s not that TANF or the Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, hasn’t succeed, because it has. Take away the Great Recession and we’re not looking at a twenty-percent poverty rate today, because under TANF low-income parents are … Continue reading
Posted in New America Foundation, The New Democrat
Tagged 2016, America, Center Right, Classical Liberalism, Classical Liberals, Economic Development, Economic Freedom, Economic Liberalism, Education, Job Training, Lara Burt, Liberalism, Liberals, Low-Income Workers, Low-Skilled Adults, Low-Skilled Workers, Middle Class, Poverty, Poverty in America, Public Assistance, Ron Haskins, TANF, United States, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Welfare to Work
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James Patterson: Freedom is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report
Source:The New Democrat What I take from Freedom is Not Enough from the James Patterson book is that freedom is not free. Unless you have the skills to get yourself the job that earns you the income to live as … Continue reading
Posted in Book TV, The New Democrat
Tagged 2015, America, Center Right, Classical Liberalism, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Economic Freedom, Economic Liberalism, Education, Freedom is Not Free, James Patterson, Job Training, Liberalism, Pat Moynihan, Poverty in America, Public Assistance, The 1960s, The Moynihan Report, United States, War on Poverty, Washington, Washington DC, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Welfare to Work, Wilson Center
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Economist’s View: Alan Krueger: The Minimum Wage: How Much is Too Much?
Source:Economist’s View Good question, because how is a job where the employee bags groceries, rings up groceries, makes cheeseburgers, cleans up after people, takes orders from customers, worth. Not as much as the person who hires those people, or as … Continue reading
Brookings Institution: Ron Haskins: $2 a Day, A More Complete Picture
Source:The New Democrat I agree with Ron Haskins here that when today’s Progressives say that Americans in poverty only live on $2 a day, they tend to leave out things like public housing, food assistance, Medicaid to use as examples. … Continue reading
Posted in Brookings Video, The New Democrat
Tagged 2015, America, Center Right, Classical Liberalism, Classical Liberals, Education, Free Society, Individual Freedom, Individualism, Job Training, Liberal Democracy, Liberalism, Liberals, Low-Income Adults, Low-Income Workers, Low-Skilled Adults, Low-Skilled Workers, Minimum-Wage, New Democrats, Non-Workers, Personal Responsibility, Poverty, Poverty in America, Public Assistance, Ron Haskins, Safety Net, Social Insurance, U.S. Government, United States, Washington, Washington DC, Welfare, Welfare to Work
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C-SPAN: President Bill Clinton’s Welfare Reform Press Statement
Source:The New Democrat The 1996 Welfare to Work Law, I believe is the best part of the Clinton Presidency. Along with moving the Democratic Party back to the Center-Left and making it a national party again. That can win outside … Continue reading
Posted in The New Democrat, WJC Presidency
Tagged 104th Congress, 1996, 1996 Welfare to Work Law, America, Arkansas, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton Administration, Bill Clinton Presidency, Center Right, Classical Liberalism, Classical Liberals, Economic Development, Economic Freedom, Education, Job Training, Liberalism, New Democrats, Poverty in America, President Bill Clinton, Public Assistance, The 1990s, The White House, U.S. Congress, U.S. Government, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, United States, Washington, Washington DC, Welfare to Work
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Foreign Affairs: Graham K. Brown and Arnim Langer: ‘Lessons From Affirmative Action Around The World’
Source:The New Democrat “Americans tend to think of affirmative action as a uniquely American institution: an outgrowth of the civil rights movement, intended primarily to improve economic opportunities for African Americans, who have continued to face obstacles to equality long … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Affairs Video, The New Democrat
Tagged 2015, Affirmative Action, America, Armin Langer, Associated Press, Civil Rights, Economic Development, Economic Freedom, Education, Equal Rights, Free Society, Graham K. Brown, Individual Freedom, Infrastructure, Job Training, Liberal Democracy, Liberal Society, Poverty in America, United States
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The New Republic: Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig: The Economist Magazine is Wrong About Welfare’s Impact on Family
Source:The New Democrat As far as disability insurance, if you are physically and mentally able to working, meaning you don’t suffer from some physical or mental condition that makes it hard if not impossible for you to work full-time, you … Continue reading
The New Republic: Jamie Holmes: ‘Why Can’t More People Escape Poverty?’
Source:The New Republic– Poverty in America? Source:The New Republic “During this week’s Congressional Black Caucus special order hour on “Lifting Americans Out of Poverty”, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries’ explained the base causes that keeps many struggling American families at or under … Continue reading
Posted in Originals, TNR
Tagged 113th Congress, 2014, America, Education, Hakeem Jeffries, Jamie Holmes, Job Training, Low-Income People, Low-Skilled Workers, Poor People, Poverty, Poverty in America, Public Assistance, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Congress, U.S. Government, U.S. House of Representatives, United States, Washington, Washington DC
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Brookings Institution: Melissa S. Kearney & Benjamin Harris: Fighting Poverty Needs to be a National Priority
Source:The New Democrat This blog covers and writes about poverty a lot as it should. But writing about something a lot can make it difficult to put things in a new an interesting way and makes it difficult to sound … Continue reading
The New America Foundation: Justin King- Senator Ron Wyden Wants Children’s Savings Accounts
Source:The New Democrat I somewhat covered this last week with a blog on retirement and unemployment accounts for people so they can save for retirement and not have to burn those accounts when they are unemployed, especially for long periods … Continue reading
Posted in New America Foundation, The New Democrat
Tagged 113th Congress, 2014, America, Asset Building, Center Left, Economic Capital, Economic Growth, Henry Louis Gates, Income Gap, Justin King, Middle Class Workers, Oregon, Poverty in America, Progresisves, Progressive Democrats, Progressivism, Ron Wyden, Savings Accounts, Savings Rates, Senate Democrats, Senator Ron Wyden, U.S. Congress, U.S. Government, U.S. Senate, United States, Washington, Washington DC, Wealth Creation
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