The Conservative Approach to Poverty

Episode #30

The Conservative Approach to Poverty

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The GOP sure has been talking a lot about poverty. This past weekend, Speaker Ryan and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) co-hosted a big anti-poverty summit in Columbia, South Carolina, where they brought together several of the GOP presidential hopefuls as well as conservative thought leaders to share their ideas for “expanding opportunity in America.” To discuss the GOP’s proposals for fighting poverty—and what folks on the left and the right think about them—we’re joined by Robert Doar, the Mordridge Fellow in Poverty Studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and former Commissioner of New York City’s Human Resources Administration under Mayor Bloomberg, and Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former chief economist for Vice President Biden.