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The budget spells out how much money each federal agency will get for the 2014 fiscal year. the president thanked staffers and described the importance of this agreement. >> these aren't numbers. these are homeless folks who are getting housing. these are laid-off workers suddenly enrolling in community college and finding the job that allows them to save a home and get back on track. that's some young scientist who's maybe going to find a cure for cancer, alzheimer's. that's what those numbers represent. >> wisconsin democratic congresswoman gwen moore voted for that spending bill. she joins ...

You regular stories of people living below the line. the policies and decisions that create the poverty in which they live, what they are doing to survive in tough circumstances and what we can do as a nation to affect poverty. we recognize it's a tough topic and many in politics prefer not to talk about it at all. that's exactly why we want to talk about it. although the official poverty rate didn't increase last year, it was still at 15%. translating to 46.2 million people. when you break it down by age, 21.9% are under the age of 18. 13.7% are between 18 and 64 and 8.7% are over the age of ...

Need more tax payers who want to -- what do i mean by that, we need more people with jobs, the more people with jobs, the more taxpayers we have, the higher the revenues, the fewer people who are on entitlement programs unnecessarily. so i can tell you that raising taxes in any way, shape or form with the republicans in washington is dead on arrival. >> congressman, i have to say, though, the top 1% of wage earners contributes 38% of federal income taxes that very small pool of people does have a major impact on the budget and if you raise taxes for -- on that very small pool of people, it wil...

Aren't numbers. these are people. this is bob and mary and jane and dave who are desperate for these little checks they get every week. and so we have mayors, we have governors who have spoken out but the republicans have turned a deaf ear. >> this just tells all of us who the republicans really are. more than a million, more than a million americans will have lost their unemployment insurance by the end of this month, and the rightis just don't care, it's all about the money. even if the bill had passed, it would not have helped the 99ers, the ones who exhausted their unemployment and have be...