Unsuccessful. Were spending a lot of money. 13,000 per person. A lot of that is on health care. 45 of it. That is where congress decided to spend the money. The nation has made a great commitment to helping the poor. It increases every year. Third issue, the causes. The first is work rates. The longterm decline of work among males. The work rate among young black males, before the rescission, we before the recession, we have a real problem with male employment. For reasons that are not clear. Females, the opposite. They work more. Married women had joined the labor force. Never married mothers. The poorest group of mothers have had a spectacular increase in employment and even today, the likelihood that they have a job is greater, about 20 and it was before welfare reform. That group is working a lot. Wages. These are astounding. The wages at the 10th percentile and blow our where they were 30 and below are where they were 30 years ago. It is hard to make progress against poverty as we
Srael and all the time they do not respect, demoralize and do not comply with international, should be treated as other and i told once , they werent listening to us, you should be really concerned from the agreement with iran and the west but not because of the substance of the agreement but because of the mechanism that informs the agreement. This mccannas him, i told them mechanism, i know its not easy o boycott israel and put sanctions on oil but this is the way. I tell you, this is the way. Thats why the work of the media is very important, i know it has some substance and hallenges in the issues that tried to criminalize such work, but this is the way to peace. You have had to overcome and protect yourself and be prepared about other issues, i was asked, im being told i only have one minute of course but the division between hamas, this is a devasting disaster, this this is the worst thing that happened to us. Again, we have to face it by reviving the National Project in the pala
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