By Reihan Salam
...While I can’t speak (click here) to what Ryan does in his off hours, I can say that he does believe in the safety net, as he made clear in an address to the conservative American Enterprise Institute on Thursday. There are conservatives who accept the existence of a social safety net begrudgingly, as a concession to political reality that nevertheless offends their libertarian convictions. These are the guys who damn Franklin Delano Roosevelt while adjusting their monocles. And then there are those who, like Ryan, believe that a safety net in good working order is crucial to a healthy economy. Where Ryan parts company from most liberals is in his understanding of what it means for the safety net to be in good working order....
Very true. Rep. Ryan does believe in a social safety net which is a new reality for someone so focused on the national budget.
Rep. Ryan has an interesting approach in consolidating resources to fund a catapult into the future for those Poor and in the Lower Middle Class. I don't dislike the 'idea' (can't say it is new), however, it is extreme in it's approach.
If Rep. Ryan is serious about this 'new consolidation' of resources THE ONLY REASONABLE way of deploying such a plan is to make it a 'trial model' in some areas of the country. Even in such a Trial Model, it would have to be the option of the Social Worker and the recipient of social support to venture into this attempt to change the way a social safety net is employed.
Realizing the USA working class is grossly underpaid with health care needs underfunded in many states it is not prudent to trash the entire current social safety net. But, there is nothing to say for Trial Model for Rep. Ryan's idea which would need autonomous funding. Rep. Ryan needs to bring his idea to the Congress rewritten to bring about a Trial Model which would take additional funding. As the Trial Model is employed the pitfalls can be realized and modified or perhaps even abandoned if it proves to be a failure. It is the only way such a program should be instituted.
When the Welfare to Work Program was instituted in a mass deployment there were problem and there continues to be many problems, including children unsupervised while their only parent works or face long bus rides home. Perhaps, Rep. Ryan's best approach is to FIRST carry out a survey of America's Social Workers with first hand knowledge of the Welfare to Work Program to ask for their input to it's successes and it's failure to be sure the failures are not repeated in his Trial Model Program.
Rep. Ryan still is attempting to by-pass the professionals that have wanted to speak with him since 2012. They have ideas and he should be more receptive.
There is no one more than I that would love to see social programs that work to return dignity, prosperity and wealth to every American. But, sadly, this so called 'NEW' program by Rep. Ryan is simply a recycled variety of his failed run for Vice President in 2012.
Honestly. Perhaps the graph below is finally large enough for Rep. Ryan to notice it. Or better yet, the ELECTORATE of Rep. Ryan's district.
October 10, 2010
By James P. Leute
...While I can’t speak (click here) to what Ryan does in his off hours, I can say that he does believe in the safety net, as he made clear in an address to the conservative American Enterprise Institute on Thursday. There are conservatives who accept the existence of a social safety net begrudgingly, as a concession to political reality that nevertheless offends their libertarian convictions. These are the guys who damn Franklin Delano Roosevelt while adjusting their monocles. And then there are those who, like Ryan, believe that a safety net in good working order is crucial to a healthy economy. Where Ryan parts company from most liberals is in his understanding of what it means for the safety net to be in good working order....
Very true. Rep. Ryan does believe in a social safety net which is a new reality for someone so focused on the national budget.
Rep. Ryan has an interesting approach in consolidating resources to fund a catapult into the future for those Poor and in the Lower Middle Class. I don't dislike the 'idea' (can't say it is new), however, it is extreme in it's approach.
If Rep. Ryan is serious about this 'new consolidation' of resources THE ONLY REASONABLE way of deploying such a plan is to make it a 'trial model' in some areas of the country. Even in such a Trial Model, it would have to be the option of the Social Worker and the recipient of social support to venture into this attempt to change the way a social safety net is employed.
Realizing the USA working class is grossly underpaid with health care needs underfunded in many states it is not prudent to trash the entire current social safety net. But, there is nothing to say for Trial Model for Rep. Ryan's idea which would need autonomous funding. Rep. Ryan needs to bring his idea to the Congress rewritten to bring about a Trial Model which would take additional funding. As the Trial Model is employed the pitfalls can be realized and modified or perhaps even abandoned if it proves to be a failure. It is the only way such a program should be instituted.
When the Welfare to Work Program was instituted in a mass deployment there were problem and there continues to be many problems, including children unsupervised while their only parent works or face long bus rides home. Perhaps, Rep. Ryan's best approach is to FIRST carry out a survey of America's Social Workers with first hand knowledge of the Welfare to Work Program to ask for their input to it's successes and it's failure to be sure the failures are not repeated in his Trial Model Program.
October 14, 2012
By Greg Kaufmann
By Greg Kaufmann
...Subsidized jobs (click here) have been widely hailed by both Democratic and Republican governors — like Haley Barbour and Scott Walker — and the Recovery Act created 260,000 such jobs for low-income adults before Republicans in Congress killed the program. This kind of investment is particularly key in metro areas like Milwaukee, where just 52 percent of African American males in their prime working years were employed in 2010, compared to 85 percent in 1970.
The third proposal that would benefit working adults is to raise the minimum wage to $8.00 an hour. That hardly seems extreme, given that it would be $10.55 an hour if it were adjusted for inflation in the same way that, say, individual campaign contribution limits are....
There is no one more than I that would love to see social programs that work to return dignity, prosperity and wealth to every American. But, sadly, this so called 'NEW' program by Rep. Ryan is simply a recycled variety of his failed run for Vice President in 2012.
Honestly. Perhaps the graph below is finally large enough for Rep. Ryan to notice it. Or better yet, the ELECTORATE of Rep. Ryan's district.
October 10, 2010By James P. Leute
JANESVILLE — The troubling news (click here) is that one child out of every five in Rock County is living in poverty.
The worse news is that the county's 2009 child-poverty rate—the second-highest in Wisconsin—does not reflect this year's continuing economic fallout.
As part of its American Community Survey, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 20.2 percent of Rock County kids under 18 were living below the poverty level. Rock County's rate is second only to Milwaukee County, where the child-poverty rate was nearly 30 percent.
The number of local children living in poverty has increased in recent years, but at nowhere near the level between 2008 and 2009.
"We're certainly seeing it," said Ann Forbeck, the Janesville School District's homeless education coordinator. "We've had a lot more requests for assistance such as clothing and school supplies, plus we've had more people asking for bus tokens so they can get to school."
More students are coming to class hungry, without a good night's sleep and distracted by the overall stress of poverty, she said....
