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Congressman southerland. this was all done on the anniversary of lyndon johnson s declaration for war on poverty. what do you think of this idea of the promise zones across the country, the first five of which were unveiled on thursday? the president, i believe this is the program he made reference to in his state of the union a year ago. so there doesn t seem to be much of an urgency here since it s 13 months after he first mention e it. the devil is in the details. there wasn t a lot of details that came out. as you know, president reagan had the enterprise zones. if it s patterned after that, that encouraged school choice. i do believe tax incentives to move the economy forward. and so we re going to be patient. we re going to look at what the president is offering and but again, the devil is in the details. congressman van holland, i think many people were appreciative of the idea of the promise zones. ted cruz came out and said all of america needs to be a promise zone with re ....
Though we just had a cut in november. so it s hard to listen to our colleagues on one hand saying they want to fight the war on poverty when they re taking all these initiatives to throw more people into poverty. what do you think of senator rubio s proposal to do away with the earned income tax credit that lump sum payment that people get at the end of the year and replace it with federal wage? i think the earned income tax credit has helped. i think it s a fact, it helped lift people out of poverty. i d be opposed to that. that has been a bipartisan idea. republicans and democrats joined together to pass the earned income tax credit to reward work. to say to people, if you work hard, you re at least going to earn an income that is above the poverty level. so that s a very important effort as are these others. so we should not use numbers to say we re not winning the war on poverty because we don t count these programs. we re not winning because we still have 47 million americans ....
Economy going and have more broadly shared prosperity. there is a fundamental difference in ideology though of how to do this, congressman southerland. you said looking back on lyndon johnson s war in poverty if, it had failed, do you keep putting more money into existing programs or do you as senator marco rubio suggested earlier this week, fundamentally reform everything? take a big pot of money that federal government has and give that to the states to administer in innovative ways? they re the ones on the ground who know what needs to be done. i don t know, i think you have to look at the the indicators, the fundamentals of these programs. look what causes poverty. we know, okay, that two parent families is a child s greatest opportunity to avoid poverty. we know that a good quality education with daily parent involvement, great choice reduces poverty. we know that a good job, you know, 90 of the people that have a job, okay, only 3% are in poverty. so if you have a job in ....
Congressman southerland. this was all done on the anniversary of lyndon johnson s declaration for war on poverty. what do you think of this idea of the promise zones across the country, the first five of which were unveiled on thursday? the president, i believe this is the program he made reference to in his state of the union a year ago. so there doesn t seem to be much of an urgency here since it s 13 months after he first mention e it. the devil is in the details. there wasn t a lot of details that came out. as you know, president reagan had the enterprise zones. if it s patterned after that, that encouraged school choice. i do believe tax incentives to move the economy forward. and so we re going to be patient. we re going to look at what the president is offering and but again, the devil is in the details. congressman van holland, i think many people were appreciative of the idea of the promise zones. ted cruz came out and said all of america needs to be a promise zone with re ....
Strategy of trying to get the economy going and have more broadly shared prosperity. there is a fundamental difference in ideology though of how to do this, congressman southerland. you said looking back on lyndon johnson s war in poverty if, it had failed, do you keep putting more money into existing programs or do you as senator marco rubio suggested earlier this week, fundamentally reform everything? take a big pot of money that federal government has and give that to the states to administer in innovative ways? they re the ones on the ground who know what needs to be done. i don t know, i think you have to look at the the indicators, the fundamentals of these programs. look what causes poverty. we know, okay, that two parent families is a child s greatest opportunity to avoid poverty. we know that a good quality education with daily parent involvement, great choice reduces poverty. we know that a good job, you know, 90 of the people that have a job, okay, only 3% are in pov ....