[inaudible conversations] thank you for coming out tonight with his politics prose that busboys and poets event did as they had the honor of hosting dana hatcher, for his new book, the poverty industry. My name is david. I work with the event staff at politics prose that we just have a few quick announcements to make before he introduced daniel tonight. First off, this is at politics prose that busboys event. We are selling books and hosting events at three of the locations. You are here at the location. You can also find a set to think and tacoma. Grab a calendar and you can see Different Event scheduled throughout the city. Part of that partnership is now you are in a restaurant and you can order food and drink at the same time while here in the great work talk. I encourage you to do so and treat your waitstaff well. At this moment, take out your cell phone to silence them so we dont have any unnecessary interruptions. After the event is over, we will have a signing table an opportun
Since welfare reform has continued to rise, that maybe even risen faster, so were spending more money actually fighting poverty since welfare reform than before welfare reform begin. These all in constant dollars. This is not just a reflection of inflation. This is a collection of where actually spending more money on antipoverty programs on the hundred plus programs i was talking about. Even if we have somehow held and with its block grant state and its decline in real terms, what weve done is simply shift spending to other programs, particularly to in kind of programs rather than cash programs. We have moved away from giving people cash and have increased hitting people of the types of benefits, housing, medicaid which is the biggest of all these programs, job training programs, education programs, food stands and so on are all together. At the same time the question that comes up with what we have done in terms of poverty. Again this blue line behind me is when welfare reform kicks
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