CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings July 25, 2014
Thank you. Id like to join my colleagues. Its critically important that we have a dialogue that goes beyond money. For the past 40 years, the antipoverty expenditures, 15 trillion, 70 cents of every dollar spent on poor people goes not to the poor, but those who serve poor people. These professional providers ask which problems are fund bl. So we have created a commodity out of poor people where there are perverse incentives for maintaining people in poverty. We wonder why it expands. And so its important for us to recognize that this control has to change. But in addressing poverty, its impor...