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People are still super poor. in 1996, 68% of families with children living in poverty who qualified received. by 2010, 27% people receive. it's not that there's less poor people. there's more poor people, less people drawing benefits. that's the gap between those two, the people who are poor and people on benefits that's not a success story that's a failure of social policy. >> this gets back to politics. no one expects for poor folks to be engaged in our political storm and therefore we can do anything to them and poor children. we haven't talked about the impact on children. these are famili...

Poor. and according to the senate for budget and policy priorities, fully 62% of the ryan budget cuts come from programs for the poor and despite that fact, poverty almost entirely absent as a topic of the presidential campaign if you want to stay up to date on the politics and poverties of policy, read "this week in poverty" dispah at the nation.com. for the week, we'll begin with you, sam. >> a couple of weeks ago "the new york times" reported president obama was support yet that democrats weren't getting enough credit for being willing to cut social security and medicare this past week, vic...

President obama would breeze to re-election. according to a survey, the president leads governor romney by a stunning margin of 43-14 of the nearly 40% of meshes that are eligible to vote but are unlikely to do so. you should know that among this constituency of the politically disengaged, the president has a 55% favorability rating compared to 35% unfavorability. you should know that the republican party understand very well that the smaller the electorate, the fewer people who vote, the more likely they are to win. should know the census will be releasing indepth poverty figures on september...

Untalked about part of the social contract right now in the campaign which are poor americans and poverty rates increase. the only people talk about the poverty rate increase are republicans because they can use it as a talking point to attack the president. ironically or not the budget they are proposing would really be savage on the poor. could we talk about the president's record on this, michael? i feel like one of the things that got lost and so many things got lost by the recovery act as i learned from your book were the quite substantial investments made in folks who were struggling thr...

Medicare plan is the most shocking of ryan's budget is services that benefit the poor, a constituency with far, far less political power than the retirees in that senior center in florida. it's calculated that 62% of the cuts from the ryan plan come from programs that help the poor. 62%. medicaid would be cut by 1.4 trillion often years a third of the entire budget effective immediately. food stamps would be cut by $133 billion thing on people off the program and additional $754 billion in cuts that benefit to the poor that ryan doesn't spell out. he took to the stump to attack obama not only ...