There is a new report out this morning from the Center for Budget and Public Policy Priorities, indicating that the safety net lifted 39 million Americans out of poverty in 2013.
the goal is to terminate, cancel, and cut, which seems to be the approach taken in this unfortunate Republican budget.
The success of abstinence-only programs, you know, it was--you know, those programs have not been proven effective.
What would be the effect on the inequality gap that this country has already, and on those poor families, if we make tho...
I think it is really important to renew it. It is not a panacea. But it helps parents be what they really want to be.
I think it is important that we extend the Family Home Visiting Program, Family Nurse Partnership, those types of progra...
Less than 20 percent of the families federally eligible for child care assistance ever obtain any assistance.
Texas actually has a lot of things that we can teach both other States and the Federal level about those block grant pro...
Unfortunately, one key safety net program, TANF, falls short on this level of success.
I believe we need to have evidence-based programs, but we need to look at the evidence.
I believe we have made steady progress in overcoming the great recession set in motion by Wall Street fraud.