Tag Archives: Job Training

Brookings Institution: Blog: E.J. Dionne: A Conversation With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: Strengthening The Financial Security of America’s Working Families

Brookings Institution: Blog: E.J. Dionne: A Conversation With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: Strengthening The Financial Security of America’s Working Families Infrastructure investment, a national energy policy, education and job training for our low-skilled adults and low-income students, immigration reform … Continue reading

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The Week: Opinion- Jeff Spross: ‘President Obama’s Middle-Out Economics is Good, Bottom-Up Economics is Better’

  Source: The Week: Opinion- Jeff Spross: Middle-Out Economics is Good, Bottom-Up Economics is Better I have several questions that I would ask Jeff Spross. Which is why can’t you do both? Why can’t you have policies that improve the middle … Continue reading

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The Week: Jeff Spross: ‘Three Reasons Why Work Requirements For Food Stamps Are a Bad Idea’

“Thanks to an obscure part of the 1996 law that re-worked the country’s welfare system, about one million Americans will probably lose food assistance by the end of 2016. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — colloquially known as food … Continue reading

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Patrick J. Buchanan: The Socialist & the Social Darwinist

Source:The FreeState As much as President Obama may campaign as a Progressive Populist who runs on class warfare and someone who believes in “soaking the rich” to take care of the rest with Federal social programs, he’s not. You gotta … Continue reading

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The New Republic: Jamie Holmes: ‘Why Some People Can’t Escape Poverty’

Source:The New Republic Source:FRS FreeState “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 the poverty line.” Source:U.S. … Continue reading

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New America Foundation: Alice Mary McCarthy: America’s Job Training System: Better Than You Think

Source:The New Democrat  There are plenty parts of the Federal budget that I would like to cut back on and reform. Like in defense, agriculture subsidies, corporate welfare, red tape, but one area where I would like to see America … Continue reading

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American Enterprise Institute: Representative Paul Ryan: ‘Expanding Opportunity in America’

Source:The New Democrat  I’ve seem some of the reactions from so-called progressive publications like Salon and the AlterNet about Representative Paul Ryan’s anti-poverty programs reform plan. Representative Ryan is of course the Chairman of the House Budget Committee and a … Continue reading

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The Nation: Bryce Covert: We’re Punishing Poor Mothers For Our Own Failures

Source:The New Democrat The Nation: Opinion: Bryce Covert: We’re Arresting Poor Mothers For Our Own Failures I actually agree with Bryce Covert that if we are going require Welfare mothers (for lack of a better term) single mothers on Welfare … Continue reading

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CBPP: Commentary: Arloc Sherman: Policymakers Often Overstate Marginal Tax Rates: How to Make Work Pay

Father of the Negative Income Tax CBPP: Commentary: Arloc Sherman: Policymakers Often Overstate Marginal Tax Rates I saw a video this afternoon of President Richard Nixon giving a speech to the country outlining his Welfare reform plan from 1969. In … Continue reading

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Richard Nixon Foundation: Video: President Nixon Unveils Family Assistance Program in 1969

What President Nixon is talking about here in 1969 became what is now known as Welfare to Work. The bipartisan law that Congress passed in 1996 that was signed by President Bill Clinton. The old Welfare system was based on … Continue reading

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