Gaines-Turner (working mom with income below the poverty level) offers six major recommendations to help the working poor: provide good jobs with good pay; protect and strengthen SNAP; invest in affordable housing; support access to health care; promote asset building, so that families can “build their own safety net” (allow people on public assistance to have some savings); and creating a bipartisan task force on poverty representing urban, rural, and suburban districts, and including people who live in poverty. billmoyers/2013/08/09/the-true-expert-on-poverty/
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:08:23 +0000
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