Two Half Answers to Poverty | Capital Commentary

Two Half Answers to Poverty | Capital Commentary by Steve Momsa.  MGB: My platform in Americans Elect actually dealt with poverty intelligently by paying people to become literate and give them the same tax advantages I would give workers and the same health care the training provider gets.  Current poverty numbers are badly estimated because they exclude government support - but even then, more people are truly poor than the current metrics show.  Also, government programs could be much better.  For the record, liberals do not like requirements that deny benefits to intact families,time- limit eligibility (which encourages abortion) and are designed to steer people into low wage work rather than real careers.  Indeed, a look at training grant programs by HHS shows a bias toward nurses aid training, which is dirty work on the best day.  The idea that we are sending a primarilty minority population toward such bodily care to rich old white people is telling on the extent that race is still an essential element in American politics.