Election 2016
45 Million Americans Live in Poverty, but You Wouldn’t Know It From Watching 2016 Coverage
One of the most pressing issues facing America is ignored by our corporate media.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/45-million-americans-live-poverty-you-wouldnt-know-it-watching-2016-coverage#.VpBcCHPVNDs.care2
Pre-Event Coverage
Talking Poverty with GOP Candidates at the Kemp Forum Tomorrow
http://www.chn.org/2016/01/08/talking-poverty-with-gop-candidates-at-the-kemp-forum-tomorrow/#.VpAmjPkrIdU
New Year, New Shave, Same Poverty “Solutions”
http://thinkprogress.org/progress-report/new-year-new-shave-same-poverty-solutions/
Ryan Invites 2016 GOP Field to Poverty Forum
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/21/ryan_invites_2016_gop_field_to_poverty_forum_128154.html#!
Fact of the Week: If Income Gains Had Been Broadly Shared – and not Concentrated in the Hands of the Richest 1 Percent – Poverty in America Could Have Been Eliminated by 1985
http://www.chn.org/2016/01/08/fact-of-the-week-if-income-gains-had-been-broadly-shared-and-not-concentrated-in-the-hands-of-the-richest-1-percent-poverty-in-america-could-have-been-eliminated-by-1985/#.VpAnl_krIdU
GOP Candidates Take the Stage to Discuss Poverty, But Will They Walk the Talk?
http://www.chn.org/2016/01/07/gop-candidates-take-the-stage-to-discuss-poverty-but-will-they-walk-the-talk/#.VpAoePkrIdU
“Bleeding-Heart,” Or Just Bloody? The GOP Poverty Show
https://ourfuture.org/20160108/bleeding-heart-or-just-bloody-the-gop-poverty-show?utm_source=progressive_breakfast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pbreak
Saturday: Watch Live Video of Kemp Presidential Forum on Poverty
http://opportunitylives.com/kemp
The livestream will begin at 8:30am EST.
CONTRAST OPPORTUNITY:
Saturday: Watch Live Video of the Iowa People’s Presidential Forum
https://ourfuture.org/20160108/saturday-watch-live-video-of-the-iowa-peoples-presidential-forum
Putting Families First
Event starts Sat, Jan 9 2016 12:00 PM PST
Watch both and “you decide”, as I kept hearing on Faux
news radio broadcast driving across mid-America….and comment with what
you decided please
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Will they walk the talk? Oh come now – they won't even talk the talk. They will keep talking about personal responsibility and bootstraps and hard work and on and on and on. Dare I suggest they wouldn't know hard work if it came to the door and showed ID?
Since Ryan didn't bother with math for doing his budgets, I guess you're on target with the standard he'll seek…
Sorry, I will have to pass on this one for a myriad of reasons but above all because I think I will hear nothing new from their corner. It's been the same-old same-old for years and the GOP isn't even going to try to address just one of the many points Bernie Sanders has been throwing at them these past months. Perhaps I'm prejudiced, but I just don't thing they have a nice surprise in store for me, so I won't waste time nor money on them.
Great job Judi.
I think the Rep[ublican Party is always looking for better better poverty program, that is, new ways to enrich the 0.1% by increasing the poverty of the poor and driving the middle class into poverty.
Thanks TC–and the link for the DEM IA forum will also get you to links for these grassroots community organizations' sponsored forums on other topics in upcoming days
An example of what folks had to say about the Kemp forum:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/09/politics/kemp-poverty-forum-takeaways/index.html
I couldn't listen to any of the links, still trying to get the new PC to work. However, I do know that the Republicans are not really interested in poverty. Poor people are not able to make donations to them.
There was one nuance that divided them–Ryan and the governors supported the EITC because the data shows it does make a difference in people getting on their feet and reducing future need for help. The outsiders did not–for example, Carson wanted flat tax.