{"id":16318,"date":"2014-03-05T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16318"},"modified":"2014-03-05T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:02:32","slug":"paul-ryans-audit-of-federal-anti-poverty-programs-finds-many-are-actually-very-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/03\/05\/paul-ryans-audit-of-federal-anti-poverty-programs-finds-many-are-actually-very-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan\u2019s Audit Of Federal Anti-Poverty Programs Finds Many Are Actually Very Effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Think Progress<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Think Progress article\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2014\/03\/03\/3353541\/ryan-poverty-report\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Paul Ryan\u2019s Audit Of Federal Anti-Poverty Programs Finds Many Are Actually Very Effective<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ryan argues that federal programs have contributed to the nation\u2019s high poverty rate and \u201ccreated what\u2019s known as the poverty trap.\u201d The report argues, \u201cFederal programs are not only failing to address the problem. They are also in some significant respects making it worse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is exactly why I produced my previous post <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/02\/15\/did-the-war-on-poverty-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Did The War On Poverty Fail?<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It was meant to be pulled out and plopped down in front of people like Paul Ryan every time they make their ridiculous claims.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Think Progress<\/em> article goes on to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But a closer look at the analysis undermines the old Ronald Reagan adage, \u201cThe nine most terrifying words in the English language are: \u2018I\u2019m from the government and I\u2019m here to help.\u2019\u201d As Ryan\u2019s own analysis points out, numerous progressive-minded spending programs have helped millions of Americans and significantly reduced the nation\u2019s poverty rate. Below are 16 examples from Ryan\u2019s own report of how the government can help lower-income Americans make ends meet:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you click the link to the article at the very beginning of this post to see the 16 examples.\u00a0 I only wish their article had referred to the charts in my previous post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress has the article Paul Ryan\u2019s Audit Of Federal Anti-Poverty Programs Finds Many Are Actually Very Effective. Ryan argues that federal programs have contributed to the nation\u2019s high poverty rate and \u201ccreated what\u2019s known as the poverty trap.\u201d The report argues, \u201cFederal programs are not only failing to address the problem. They are also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16319,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318\/revisions\/16319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}