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Have emerged in the area after katrina. how do you describe it? >> i think we've had problems in new orleans for a very long time. katrina did not create the problems that we've had. it exposed problems that existed for a very long time that really weren't being addressed. i think the difference is today that we've put forth plans over the past five years to address many of the issues dealing with homeless issues, connecting to opportunity those residents that still do not have jobs. and i think the way forward for us is going to have to be dealing with connecting people to job opportunities. ...

>> reporter: imagine that. gregg: you know, beyond senator paul, are there other republicans saying they want to do something about poverty as well? >> reporter: there are. they're not going to relate the president own -- let the president own this space, if you will, as he tries to frame the upcoming elections. you've got paul ryan who's been putting proposals on the table, marco rubio, the republican from florida, both of those gentlemen along with rand paul potentially looking at the 2016 presidential race and saying that they took a race and saying that they took a lot of criticism on heal...

the most recent cnn o.r.c. polling says 51% of americans would hold republicans responsible if the debt ceiling is not raised. just 30% would find president obama more responsible. peter moresi joins us. i have to ask you this, you are an economist, you're a well-respected economist and we have spoken together for years. do you have any evidence of what so many conservatives are saying that if we were to increase taxes at all, at all at this point in an economic cycle, that it would actually hurt our economic recovery? >> well, increasing taxes wouldn't hurt anymore than, say, cuttin...

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