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muntrv

(14,505 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 03:07 PM Jun 2014

From Robert Reich: 3 biggest right wing lies about poverty in America.

Rather than confront poverty by extending jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed, endorsing a higher minimum wage or supporting jobs programs, conservative Republicans are taking a different tack.

They're peddling three big lies about poverty. To wit:

■ Lie No. 1: Economic growth reduces poverty.

"The best anti-poverty program," wrote Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, in the Wall Street Journal, "is economic growth."

Wrong. Since the late 1970s, the economy has grown 147% per capita but almost nothing has trickled down. The typical American worker is earning just about what he or she earned three decades ago, adjusted for inflation.

Meanwhile, the share of Americans in poverty remains around 15%. That's even higher than it was in the early 1970s.

How can the economy have grown so much while most people's wages go nowhere and the poor remain poor? Because almost all the gains have gone to the top.
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http://www.freep.com/article/20140625/OPINION05/306250004/poverty-in-America

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From Robert Reich: 3 biggest right wing lies about poverty in America. (Original Post) muntrv Jun 2014 OP
The whole of the right-wing mantra is but a holistic lie and those who buy in are indepat Jun 2014 #1
"Jobs cure poverty" is really a half-truth meow2u3 Jun 2014 #2
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indepat

(20,899 posts)
1. The whole of the right-wing mantra is but a holistic lie and those who buy in are
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 03:13 PM
Jun 2014

blithering idiotic nattering nabobs.

meow2u3

(24,745 posts)
2. "Jobs cure poverty" is really a half-truth
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 04:16 PM
Jun 2014

Jobs in of of themselves don't cure poverty; jobs that pay well enough for families to sustain themselves without having to rely on the social safety net, along with job security, is the best cure for poverty

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