Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140304:19:53:00
One. now ryan is out with a new house budget committee report today, a 204 page precursor to his latest budget. launched 50 years ago by president johnson before the funding was cut short by vietnam. ryan says the war on poverty has failed and he points to the 15% current poverty rate, not much below the 17.7% rate back in 1965 as proof. he concludes that many of the some 90 federal programs designed to fix poverty actually make it worse, creating a poverty trap and penalizing families for getting ahead. ryan's report does concede that some programs work. it has good things to say about the ve...