To do something. Ryan unveiled his latest poverty fighting initiative. This new stream of funding would become opportunity. This idea is not a new idea. Washington is getting in the way. Policy or politics . Federal aid is fragmented. Theyre going in the wrong direction. Watch what they do, not what they say. Trying to make a movement for the gop to rebrand themselves as the jack kemp republican party. Paul ryan already has a place in our political history, as all Vice President ial candidates do. In his case, as the losing Vice President ial candidate in the last president ial election. And he already has a clearly defined turf in the Republican House of representatives. He is the republicans serious man, the republicans big, bold thinker on matters of the budget. It has never been easier to claim the image of serious thinker among republican members of congress, since we have never had so many unserious thinkers among them. Today, paul ryan reached for something big. Something important. And something no other republican is trying to do. In fact, no republican among earlier generations of socalled serious republicans has really tried to do this. Paul ryan wants to be the republicans serious thinker about poverty. He has no rivals in this. There are no republicans wishing they could elbow paul ryan out of the poverty spotlight. And unfortunately, he has no real counterpart on the democratic side of congress now. There is no senator kennedy to welcome him to this cause. There is no senator moynihan who worked on improving the welfare system for four decades. There is no authority on the subject in the house or the Senate Chambers that members turn to now. But now, here comes paul ryan. Today, he issued a 73page discussion draft of his thoughts on poverty entitled expanding opportunity in america. It is the product of a series of hearings he launched a year ago, entitled the war on poverty, a progress report. He took testimony from sister samone campbell and robert greenstein, who has been testifying to congress with authority on the effectiveness of the social safety net for decades. And thanks to the democratic members of his committee, chairman ryan also heard from a real live person struggling at the bottom end of the american pay scale, tiana gaines turner. My husband gets paid every week. After taxes he clears maybe 170 a week. Okay. I get paid 10. 80 an hour. Just recently in june, my hours were cut down to 12 hours a week. You just broke down my everything. Could anyone live off that amount i do . Every month, every week . Its difficult. Its not something that we choose to do. Of course we want to get a fulltime job. Of course my husband wants to go back to school. He has a masonary degree. I want to go back to school, im a very smart person, but my circumstances dont allow me to go to school and to also work and to juggle our family. Today, paul ryan finally revealed the first draft of his plan in a speech at the American Enterprise institute. I would start a Pilot Program called an opportunity grant. It would consolidate up to 11 federal programs into one program. Right now you have to go to a bunch of different offices to enroll in a bunch of different programs each with different rules. Under this opportunity grant, you could go to one office and work with one person for all of your needs. That person would give you Financial Assistance and would also act as a personal resource. Take one example, lets call her andrea. Shes 24. She has two kids. Theyre 2 and 4 years old. Her husband left the family six months ago. She doesnt know how to contact him. She graduated from high school, but her only Work Experience was a twoyear stint in retail. She and her kids now live with her parents in a twobedroom mobile home. Her parents cant support her over the long haul. Shes been trying to find work for five months. She doesnt have a car. She cant afford child care. And her dream is ultimately one day to become a teacher under this plan. Andrea would go to a local service provider, sit down with her case manager and develop an opportunity plan. That plan would pin point her strengths, her opportunities for growth, her short, medium and longterm goals. The two of them could sign a contract. Andrea would meet specific benchmarks for success. She would establish a time line for meeting them. Consequences for missing them and rewards for exceeding them. Her short term goal is to find a job, her longterm goal is to find a job as a teacher. Her case manager would help pay for transportation and child care to take classes at night. Over time she could go to school, get her certification and find a teaching job. The point is, with someone involved there to help coordinate her aid, andrea would not just find a job, she would start a career. Joining me now, robert greenstein, founder and president of the center on budget and policy priorities. And joy reid. I want to begin by welcoming paul ryan to this discussion. I mean it, bob and joy, because the way legislators do this in washington is if you put out a 73page report and theres two pages in here i like, i call you up and i say paul, thats great, i love that thing on the earned income tax credit, and then i slowly try to work out some kind of thing where we can legislate something. So i would like to begin with some of the things in here that i think we might all agree are good things. I think for example, its very useful, joy, that he includes in here a discussion of the criminal justice system. Hes hooking at poverty in america and wants to do something about sentencing reform, prison reform, recidivism reduction. This is the kind of stuff to be encouraged and one area that you would think there would be some bipartisan progress. You heard people like senator rand paul talk about some of the same things. Its definitely a bipartisan point of agreement. There are other things in the paul ryan plan that could be starting points, Something Like the earned income tax credit. To try to expand it and make it available. Thats something you can sew democrats getting on board with. Those things give him credit for. And there are some things about education. A certain amount of it reads as things youve got to put in there for other republicans who need to see that. And just technically, a lot of these things occur in many different committees, so there will never be one bill that has education, criminal justice and these welfare programs. You mentioned the earned income tax credit. Lets listen to what he said about that today. First, we should make sure that in this country it always pays to work. I would do that by increasing the earned income tax credit for childless workers. So i would double it to 1,000 and lower the minimum eligibility from 25 to 21 years old. This is similar to what the president has proposed. Bob greenstein, what is your reaction . Its very good, as he said, its very similar to the president s. People like myself and many others have been calling for it for years. But there are two caveats there are. The way that he pays for his earned Income Credit expansion is, in part, by ripping away the Child Tax Credit for several million low income children in immigrant working families. There are other ways to pay for it. He completely eliminates another program, the social Services Block grant to pay for the earned income tax increase, which provides for the services he said someone like andrea needs. The other thing, of course, he said that the increase in the earned Income Credit was instead of raising the minimum wage. We really need to do both. But having said that, it is a real positive that paul ryan has now embraced. The same kind of increase in the earned Income Credit for workers not raising children. That the president has embraced and a number of thinkers, both conservative and progressive, have been calling for, for a few years. But thats what i think is very important what he said about the eitc. I have no real concerns about the pay force, because were not there, and those are done in committee legislatively and negotiated. And again, not to get too technical, what hes talking about is not under the jurisdiction of the same committees with the earned income tax credit. Actually, they are under the same committee. But the earned income tax credit, it does not have some of the some of those same things hes using are not in finance on the senate side. Some of those elements hes using. Most of them are. The key ones are. But the real money is going to be in taxation. But now you have, joy, you can say now from this point forward, paul ryan agrees with us on the earned income tax credit, agrees with us on how it works, agrees with what should be done with it in the future. That to me is a very big moment. I dont expect democrats to embrace it, but this is the kind of thing where once you get somebody like that into this discussion over the norm allege normal legislative period of time, you can get something that works. Theyve been talking about this concept of expanding the earned income tax credit for a long time, this idea of giving people more cash is the solution to peoples economic problems. The one slight problem i would have with this approach is it a onetime a year infusion of income for people who have a 12month a year income issue. So if you dont address wages and the daytoday income, its fine to give people a onetime credit, but anyone who has ever been poor understands if you get that onetime tax credit, youre going to have to spend all of that catching up on your bills and the things that have fallen behind. But it is a good start and it is an election year, but democrats could embrace parts of the plan that are positive. Lets get to the real big idea in there that is to take a bunch of programs and put them all kind of together in a oneshot one stop shopping in a state. Hes suggesting that if a state wants to, hes not suggesting every state do this, but if a state wants to do it, they could take all this money, put it in a big pot and make more sense of it. What is your reaction to that part of it . This part is deeply disturbing, lawrence. I think over time it would increase poverty, hunger and probably homelessness. Heres why. He has a bunch of small programs and a few big ones and only one program that is now an entitlement, thats food stamps. When need goes up, if youre eligible, you get food stamps. If you lose your job in a recession, the amount of resources provided increases to accommodate the increased number of poor people. What he does in this plan is he terminates, destroys the entitlement status of food stamps and simply lets there be money on the stuff for state and local officials to use in a very broad way of purposes. They could use it for Certain Services that may be good services, and then withdraw some of the state and local money currently being spent on those services so they can use that elsewhere in their budgets. This happens all the time in broad block grants of this sort. The amount of funding wouldnt have a mechanism to automatically go up right away when the economy goes down. What i think you would see is he talked about andrea. Where would he get all the Additional Resources . You realize what would happen is that states would get their hands on money that is now going for basic food stamp benefits to avoid homelessness and they could use it for a whole array of purposes. At its worst, he puts in there some programs that are really developer programs so that at a local level, local officials could take some of the food stamp money and they could actually use it to make deals with local real estate and commercial developers to do things like build Shopping Centers on the end of low income areas. Yes, it may be useful to do pilot projects, but as far as im concerned, one of the greatest social achievements of this country in the last half century, has been the near elimination of severe child hunger and nutrition, largely attributable to the Food Stamp Program and its entitlement status. And any plan that blows that up is not a path we should go down. If hes willing to take out of this plan food stamps and let that be as the Core Nutrition safety net for poor families and kids and seniors, and to find some protection, we could look at some of these ideas. But thats not what the plan is. One last point here, he combines all of these things into a mega block grant and says it would be the same amount of resources under the law of today. Thats not true. Number one, you wouldnt get the automatic increases when need goes up like in recessions. Number two, we have a 30year history, lawrence, that when we take all kinds of disparate programs and throw them together, it always starts with the same amount of money, but these block grants are so diverse that the history is clear, they end up with big reductions in funding over the decades. They dont compete well with other kinds of programs. This is where all the problems are. The other part is, its just the first draft, okay . And hes just asking for a Pilot Program. And so i think a program that doesnt include food stamps, maybe theres something in there. But theres not going to be. I want to give paul ryan credit for trying to correct some of the problems of the campaign he was part of. This is where you get a peek at the real paul ryan. The idea of turning things into block grants has been in fashion among conservatives since the 90s. The idea of block grants and privatizations with to defund the left. It was the idea of defunding the great society, by taking all these programs, they want to take away the sort of positive muppet filled world where the government is good. Who do you think is going to take the optional option of getting rid of food stamps and making it into block grants . The same states that dont want to expand medicaid. Youve got paul ryan playing into a very ageold conservative plan, to take away guarantied entitlements and turn them into state specific programs. Then you have the other piece of it where andrea, unlike anyone else, has to sign the contract. If he doesnt meet the contract, she has penalties. Before we go, lets be fair. Bill clinton went along with that concept in welfare reform. Thats why we have it. We have to leave it there for tonight. There will be more, we hope. Thank you both very much for joining me tonight. Coming up, after thee airliner disasters this week, the United Nations is meeting next week on air safety and in the rewrite tonight, funny or die helps with the debate on minimum wage. Dadadadada, bumda, bumda bumda, bumda the animals went in two by two the sheep and the frog and the kangaroo and they all went marching, marching in two by two [ male announcer ] the nissan pathfinder, with intuitive fourwheel drive. An adventure worth sharing. Nissan. Innovation that excites. Athe summer of this. Mmer. G. The summer that summers from here on will be compared to. Where memories will be forged into the sand. 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We have new evidence that the russians intend to thriver heavier and more powerful multiple rocket launchers to the separatist forces in ukraine and have evidence that russia is firing artillery from within russia to attack Ukrainian Military positions. The state Department Said that the Russian Military fired artillery rounds into ukraine today and what the pentagon is calling a clear escalation of hostilities there. European officials are considering broader sanctions on russia that would limit the countrys access to financial markets. Canada announced it would impose sanctions on russian banks and energy companies. Adding to the unrest in ukraine, the countrys Prime Minister and his cabinet abruptly resigned today after the Ruling Coalition in parliaments collapsed. Joining me now is kimberly martin, professor of political science, and michael mcfall, former u. S. Ambassador to russia and msnbc contributor. Professor martin, the notion that vladamir putin would be escalating involvement in this situation after what happened with the airliner seemed impossible days ago. This is just amazing. I think its predictable. When the airliner was shot down, it proved putin made a mistake by trusting in the rebels. So he has to do a quick turn around to make sure he maintains domestic popularity, especially in the Ruling Coalition. Hes got to always be carefully balancing the interests that are involved and the hard liners and the ethnic nationalists and the people moving towards fascism are looking for any excuse to say that putin is weak and cant stay in power anymore. Ambassador, any kind of reasonable response by putin would have been disastrous for him within russia . I dont think disastrous. He has an 83 approval rating. Most people are beholden to him. I think he could have used this as an opportunity to say, enough is enough. But i didnt predict it and kims absolutely right, the other response was to double down and to increase escalation. Now the west has to make good on its commitment. You remember when the g7 leaders got together several weeks ago when the president was in europe. They said if the status quo continues, there will be new sanctions. Its not the status quo. Hes actually escalated. Hes gone beyond and the west now has to respond. Lets listen to what the president said about this today. Theres no doubt that the economies of russia and europe are intertwined, primarily around the energy sector. And it makes some europeans more concerned about a robust response to the violations of sovereignty and territorial integrity that russia has been conducting when it comes to ukraine. Sadly, tragically, the shooting down of this Malaysian Airlines airliner and the recognition that it is likely it was shot down and it is also likely that it was conducted by nonstate actors that were provided incredibly powerful weapons by the russian government, all that i think may stiffen the spine of our European Partners moving forward. Professor, what is your guess about stiffening spines in europe . Its a difficult situation because of their economic enter dependence with russia. But the United States could be doing more to help the ukrainian regime, as well. One thing we might want to think about is providing nonlethal military assistance that would help their Electronics Systems to track russian systems. Ambassador, what about the politics within ukraine . Were seeing the coalition cannot hold together in the parliament there. Yeah, i think this was inevitable. Remember, this parliament was formed well before this crisis, well before president poroshenko was elected. And as the Prime Minister said, he couldnt get through basic legislation to pay the troops, to pay the soldiers. I hope this happens quickly. I hope the election theyre talking about october. I dont see this as a terrible tragedy. I think its a necessity to have the voice of ukrainians represented in the parliament. That after all was elected a long time ago. When we see that kind of disarray within the government, and yet youre suggesting we maybe should be supply thing government with more military help, nonlethal, what is an example of that . That this government could actually use . S i mentioned, the electron antijamming equipment would be very helpful to them, because their systems are old soviet systems that the russians know how to use. But we have to be careful not to give them lethal military assistance, simply because the Ukrainian Military is not as highly professional as we would like. Theyve improved a lot in the last several months, but theyve had a tendency to shoot at civilians. We know that they have regular militias fighting alongside them. And today, the difficulties with keeping the coalition together in the Ukrainian Government provide further difficulties for the whole sake of command and control over the Ukrainian Military forces. Ambassador, what is your sense of what that government in ukraine could effectively use by way of more assistance from the u. S. . Well, first of all, i dont think that the disillusion of the parliament is a sign of array. Thats how it works. The president is in charge. Hes the commander in chief. He has an electoral mandate and hell be there irrespective of who is in the parliament. To the question of what they can and cannot use, i would say that as we were discussing earlier, we can do a lot to support the ukrainians and not just focus on trying to change putins mind and behavior. Well before we talk about military assistance, we can talk about economic assistance, which they desperately need. We can talk about information assistance. The russians have launched an incredibly effective propaganda war. We should be engaged in that, as well. Thank you both for joining me tonight. Thank you, lawrence. Coming up, it has been a terrible week in air travel. More fatalities this week than all of last year and the United Nations wants to do something about it. No, its only 15 calories. With reddi wip, fruit never sounded more delicious, with 15 calories per serving and real cream, the sound of reddi wip is the sound of joy. How much dirt can we manufacture . More than you think. Very little. [ doorbell rings ] whats this . Whats that . Swiffer sweeper. [ lee ] i came in under the assumption that it was clean. Ive been living in a fools paradise [ lee ] i came in under the assumption that it was clean. Really. 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That is beginning to feel like a familiar drumbeat here. Another plane. A commercial jetliner flying to algiers with 116 people on board crashes in western africa. In the middle east, the ban on u. S. Airliners into israel has been lifted. Officials are blaming bad weather for the plane crash that killed at least 48 people. Two more planes carrying the victims of malaysian flight 17 have just arrived back in the netherlands today. The safety board has given crews permission to move wreckage from the crash site. With all 116 passengers aboard the plane presumed dead, a total of 462 people have now died aboard commercial airliners in the last seven days. There were 210 commercial air travel deaths in all of 2013. The United Nations has called a meeting for next week. Joining me now is bruce oppley of the Law Institute at Depaul University and anthony roman, a former pilot and Flight Instructor and president of roman and associates, a global investigation firm. Anthony, these two jet crashes this week, which were crashes, theres nothing particularly new about those. The issue of the week is, Airline Security over embattled regions. What have we learned this week based on what we saw happen in ukraine . What adjustments should be made internationally about that . Lawrence, its a wonderful question, because there has been a long, relatively unknown history of airline shootdowns since 1970. Approximately 18 major airliners and commuter planes have been shot down through the present day since then. Most of them have occurred over areas of rebel activity, war zones, military sensitive areas, or air space where sovereign countries feel that the air space is of a sensitive nature. We should have learned our lesson long ago, that these areas should be avoid. The airlines, the faa, the ntsb, the International Body which sets regulations for global uniform regulations in aviation, they should have some intelligence relative to who has the capability over these conflict zones to shoot down aircraft. And theres no question that this should be avoided. Bruce, what have we learned this week in terms when you factor in what happened at Ben Gurion Airport and what we saw in ukraine . Im not sure we learned a whole lot. We dont have a uniform system worldwide for making determinations about when planes should fly or not. As you know, the faa do you think its possible to have a worldwide system like that . Well, i dont think its possible. I think it would be desirable. A lot of things are desirable. But given the reality of nation states and the reluctance of states to allow that sort of regulation, i dont think youre going to find an International Body able to do it. I think what youre going to continue to have are individual countries like the faa and the International Civic organization issuing recommendations that airlines not fly in certain areas. But in the case of the malaysian plane, both the ukraine and russia had to approve the flight paths over the ukraine. So there was a certain assumption that it would be safe to fly. So i dont think theres much chance of there being an International Body that could actually issue binding prohibitions on flying over certain areas. Anthony, i think what a lot of the flying public assumes is, if the pilot is doing this, the pilot must know this is safe, this is a safe route, or what were doing is safe. How well placed is that confidence or how misplaced is that confidence . Well, the pilot doesnt always know if theyre flying over a zone of conflict. In this particular instance, its a well known area of conflict, and im sure the pilots knew. There was some question about who was controlling that air space, russia several months before announced that it was going to exercise control over that regions air space when, in fact, that is Ukrainian Air space and should have been controlled by them. The European AviationAuthority Issued warnings back in april of this year to its member aircraft to avoid the air space in and about the region of crimea. The faa in the following month issued several warnings to u. S. Carriers. So it was known that this was going to be an area of risk. And really, it would take five to seven minutes to overfly a new route and bypass ukraine and crimea towards kuala lumpur. Bruce, what we saw at Ben Gurion Airport, it was the faa saying to american carriers, were not going to allow you to nigh into there. The carriers themselves could make that same judgment prior to the faa issuing that order if they wanted to. What is your reaction to that whole episode with the faa and Ben Gurion Airport . Well, the faa has the power to issue statements saying that airlines, american airlines. But the faa has control only over the american airlines. And so thats limited to them. So the u. S. Has some control over where the u. S. Airlines can fly, but thats only one piece of the puzzle. There are many other countries that dont issue is such regulations, and airlines are free to fly where they want unless a country actually closes its air space to airlines. Anthony, quickly before we go, what do you make of the way the ban was imposed and the way it was lifted . What is your sense of how that all worked . Well, i think that in terms of the ban being imposed, it was prudent. In terms of it being lifted is a reevaluation of the security measures that are being taken, more offensive action is taken in terms to protect the air space. Much of that information, im sure, is classified. And as the faa makes that decision, i think its a prudent one. Thank you both very much for joining me tonight. 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States can set their own minimum wages, though, which is great for social scientists and economists because it gives us a National Minimum wage laboratory which to study the effects. If one state raises the minimum wage and neighboring states dont, jobs will be driven to the lower wage rate and employment will go up in the states that have not raised the minimum wage and employment goes down in the states that raise the minimum wage. If republican theory holds, that is, this year 13 states have raised the minimum wage since january, and the experiment is not going well for republicans. Since the first time i asked congress to raise the minimum wage, 13 states and d. C. Have raised theirs. And heres something interesting, states that have increased the minimum wage this year have seen higher job growth than those who didnt raise the minimum wage. America deserves a raise. It will be good for those workers and good for business. 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