The first piece of legislation I got passed as a member of the Ohio General Assembly was time limits for able bodied adu...
The single, strongest cause of poverty in the United States today is the lack of marriage.
I think we ought to give people jobs. Jobs create work. There ought to be work, not welfare, for those who are able to w...
It is certainly no time to be pulling the plug on food assistance programs.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I really appreciate that.
I have tremendous confidence in your compassion and your quality of heart.
I am very concerned that we don't weaken programs' ability to meet needs either by reducing benefits or cutting eligibil...
We want to help those who need help and by so doing, you save money.
We need to invest in technology that is available.
Mr. Kucinich. Mr. Rector, I just want to make sure that I heard you correctly. Did you say that welfare checks are subst...
Mr. Kucinich. I just have to say that seems like somewhat of a simplistic formulation. Do you really mean that to be wha...
We have a jobless recovery where the Fed is printing money out of nothing and giving it to banks, banks not loaning mone...
Are you saying that there has been no increase in homelessness or just that there is no increase in the use of homeless ...
70 of Ohio's 88 counties now have more than 25 percent of the residents eligible for emergency food.
I look forward to working with you so that we can ensure that these critical food programs are protected from further bu...
We have to make sure that as we analyze these programs in our desire to streamline them, that we don't inadvertently low...
Mr. Kucinich. You said welfare checks substitute for husbands? Did you say that?
Why would you reduce anybody's benefits in a period where people are having trouble making ends meet?
