a career, are they getting suspended in school? can we intervene there? are they in danger of falling into the criminal justice system? can we catch them before they do? key indicators that we know will make a difference. if a child s reading by the third agreed at grade level we know they have chance at doing better. i if they aren t involved with the criminal justice system and aren t suspended, while they re in school, we know they have a chance of doing better. so there s certain things we knew would make a difference. and we have look at which programs and policies actually work. in intervening at those key periods. early childhood education works. job apprenticeship programs work. certain mentors programs work. and we have identified which strategies make a difference in the lives of young people, like mentoring, or violence prevention and intervention. the president is acknowledging what is clear as the nose on your face. there are bigger problems in
graduate ready for a career. are they getting suspended in school? can we intervene there? are they in danger of falling into the criminal justice system? can we catch them before they do? key indicators we know will make a difference. if a child s reading by the third grade at grade level we know they have a chance of doing better. if they aren t involved with the criminal justice system and aren t suspended while they re in school we know they have got a chance of doing better. so there s certain things that we knew would make a difference. and we ve looked at which programs and policies actually work in intervening at those key periods. early childhood education works. job apprenticeship programs work. certain mentoring programs work. and we ve identified which strategies make a difference in the lives of young people like mentoring, or violence prevention and intervention. because we knew this couldn t be the work of just the federal
several studies that show that head start hasn t worked nearly as well as we had hoped. he goes on to quote the studies that show that well-funded early education programs do work. sure. the house budget committee report says that well-funded early childhood education works. well, hasn t the president proposed well-funded early childhood education? absolutely. how have republicans responded? no. they want nothing to do with that. so are there ways to reform these programs? absolutely. early well-funded early childhood education is a place to start. raising the minimum wage is another place to start. but, you know, paul ryan also wants to come back to this argument that if poor people would just get married, they wouldn t be poor. if you take a poor guy who is making minimum wage and a poor woman who is making minimum wage and they get married and have
better, more effectively, he can put those forward. but interestingly enough, in this 200-page report, not one alternative policy about how to do things better and make things work better for recipients of these programs. i want to jump to that back to you. i didn t give you a chance, cynthia. that s my question for you. is there a good way for progressives to make welfare better? of course there are. what are they? of course there is. there are programs that don t work nearly as well as they should. you know, paul ryan talks about head start. head start isn t effective. he talks about he cites several studies that show that head start hasn t worked nearly as well as we had hoped. he goes on to quote the studies that show that well-funded early education programs do work. sure. the house budget committee report says that well-funded early childhood education works. well, hasn t the president proposed well-funded early childhood education?
it would still be harder for young people born into those communities to succeed than those who were born elsewhere. so if in fact that s the case, and that is what i believe, then it s in all of our interests to make sure that we are putting in place smart policies to give those communities a lift and to create ladders so that young people in those communities can succeed. well, what works? we ve already talked about what works. early childhood education works. we know that can make a difference. it s not going to solve every problem, but it can help level the playing field for kids. early in life. they re still going to have to work hard. not everybody is going to succeed. but they ll have a better chance