it made it popular along city and world communities alike. in a surprise move the gop controlled house stripped it from the farm bill and forced a separate vote. in september it passed $40 billion in stofood stamp cu over 10 years. democrats vow to restore that spending. it is not only wasteful but can cause the poor to rely on government. it was onned minds of those who launched the war on poverty. the days of the goal in our country are numbered. our american answer to poverty is not to make the poor more secure in their po vert but to reach down and help them lift themselves. it sounded really good at the time. dwifr give a hand up not a handout. charles murray was with a
it made it popular along city and world communities alike. in a surprise move the gop controlled house stripped it from the farm bill and forced a separate vote. in september it passed $40 billion in stofood stamp cu over 10 years. democrats vow to restore that spending. it is not only wasteful but can cause the poor to rely on government. it was onned minds of those who launched the war on poverty. the days of the goal in our country are numbered. our american answer to poverty is not to make the poor more secure in their po vert but to reach down and help them lift themselves. it sounded really good at the time. dwifr give a hand up not a handout. charles murray was with a
it made it popular along city and world communities alike. in a surprise move the gop controlled house stripped it from the farm bill and forced a separate vote. in september it passed $40 billion in stofood stamp cu over 10 years. democrats vow to restore that spending. it is not only wasteful but can cause the poor to rely on government. it was onned minds of those who launched the war on poverty. the days of the goal in our country are numbered. our american answer to poverty is not to make the poor more secure in their po vert but to reach down and help them lift themselves. it sounded really good at the time. dwifr give a hand up not a handout. charles murray was with a
it is only after the war on poverty was a few years along that we stopped making progress. it slowed. it stopped. murray s landmark 1984 book losing ground not only included the war on poverty failed to help people out of po vert but it had devastating consequences for an under class stopped in a culture of dependancy. your findings were controversial? very much so. their conventional wisdom now. they were conventional wisdom by the early 1990s. when you can you must work because welfare should be a second chance not a way of life. by 1996 a republican congress passed and the democratic president signed a welfare reform bill. in the years since that law has been hailed as a success helping people get off the welfare rolls and gain self-respect. but murray thinks america is
provocative. my next two guests collaborated on another important work that speaks to the social and economic divide in this country. it s the rich and the rest of us a poverty manifesto. welcome tavis smiley who hosts. and dr. cornell west princeton university. he has written 17 best sellers. gentlemen it is a delight to have you on board. what motivated you to write this? last summer dr. west and i got on a bus and took what we call a poverty tour went to 11 states 18 cities to see what the recession had done to people. po vert is not color coated americans of all races colors and greedz fell into poverty. the numbers tell a story. we realize the slight up tick in the economy like the one we are