House Ways Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Rebecca Leber

poverty rates: On Face the Nation, House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan sounded similar notes, saying the United States has the same poverty rates, despite a 50-year war on poverty and trillions of dollars spent, according to MSNBC. Ryan rejected the idea of pumping more money into the same failed system. The Republican leader blasted 50 years of liberal policies that have not worked to help the very people that we want to help. The comments weren’t exactly surprising. Rebecca Leber made a compelling case that the right has this backwards. As developments in Baltimore grew more serious last week, plenty of conservatives saw the unrest through a specific lens: the city crisis is Exhibit A in the case against progressive social-welfare policies. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.