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They call it the grass eater movement. the men would rather stay home and play video games. it sounds farfetched. but there's a report out just two days ago under scores this. i'll give you a key stat. recreational computer time is up 45% for this group. overall leisure time is only up 40%. they don't go the work. they stay home and play video games. >> melissa: that's are people that are of prime working age, 25-54. they are not disabled. and they are on medicade. they are not working. this was -- from peter cope, who wrote this, thinks a better long term solution would be eliminate all forms...

But it also reacts the prior tories this administration. which is very problematic. >> this is a killer for the american people. a literal killer. >> juan: gregory, the most interesting aspect of this is mick mulvaney says taxpayer first budget. what do you think? >> greg: i'm not sure if it's cuts or the rates of this growth being reduced. it still goes up. look at the positives. job paint wow training. apprenticeships. reforms that encourage work. the room reforms to the food stamp program. what this is doing is it's actually raising the question about the war on poverty programs and the eff...

African-american families -- fathers away from their children. that's not what we want to do. doesn't help hour communities or the countries. a range of other things, reforms we need to do, reforms we need to make to our poverty programs and we forms we need to make to -- to education, but these are deeper problems than just sort of what happens between law enforcement and the african-american community, although there need to be reforms there, too. i'm for body cam race. i think there needs to be more community policing, more engagement outside of law enforcement between the law enforcement c...

Nonprofit and more contract agencies the government pays to supposedly run poverty programs. if they're so darned successful how come we have the same percentage of the population, 13% in poverty today than we did in 1965 when we launched the war on poverty, 2 trilli$2 trillion >> isn't it more than that, really the more people dependent on these democrats the more they will likely vote them back into power because they're dependent on what the government's giving them? >> a lot of the reasons they vote democratic they think there's no way to get out of a hole and they say, if you're going to ...

>> thanks for having me. >> the united states spends $1 trillion on poverty programs. most of which disproportionately benefit blacks. is that not enough? >> that's not reparations. red line didn't disproportion e disproportionately hurt black people. it's not the same thing. we don't have a policy at all. we do not have a policy in this country that directly targets the victims of white supreme policies we don't have that. this was victims of the white supremacy. it was a special policy directed