Since welfare reform has continued to rise, that maybe even risen faster, so were spending more money actually fighting poverty since welfare reform than before welfare reform begin. These all in constant dollars. This is not just a reflection of inflation. This is a collection of where actually spending more money on antipoverty programs on the hundred plus programs i was talking about. Even if we have somehow held and with its block grant state and its decline in real terms, what weve done is simply shift spending to other programs, particularly to in kind of programs rather than cash programs. We have moved away from giving people cash and have increased hitting people of the types of benefits, housing, medicaid which is the biggest of all these programs, job training programs, education programs, food stands and so on are all together. At the same time the question that comes up with what we have done in terms of poverty. Again this blue line behind me is when welfare reform kicks
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