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U.S. House Budget Committee Opportunity Proposal [JustSouth Quarterly, Fall 2014]
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana; vertical-align: baseline;">by Fred Kammer, SJ</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana; vertical-align: baseline;">On July 24, 2014, U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released a discussion draft entitled Expanding Opportunity in America. That report observed, &ldquo;Poverty is too high, unemployment is too high, labor-force participation is too low, and wage growth is too slow.&rdquo;[1] The report&rsquo;s proposals for expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, education reform, and criminal justice reform merit careful consideration. However, the draft&rsquo;s first chapter&mdash;&ldquo;reforming the safety net&rdquo;&mdash;re-hashes ideas that will worsen poverty and erode what remains of the safety net. <a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/JSQ Fall 2014 Another Misleading Proposal_1.pdf">MORE&gt;&gt;&nbsp;</a></p>