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Gingrich Position on Poverty
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• Gingrich believes that poverty could be erased with more opportunities in education.
• He thinks that orphanages like Boys Town serve children better than welfare.
• He supports group homes for unwed mothers.
• He would prohibit welfare to minor mothers and deny increased AFDC for additional children born while on welfare.
• Gingrich supports less spending on welfare and establishing work requirements.
• He thinks welfare should only last 2 years.
• Gingrich promotes moving the powers of government back to the states and local governments where volunteers better know the needs of the people.
• Newt would Improve opportunities for the poor by teaching children values and emphasizing family, education and work.
• He would establish tax incentives for investment and entrepreneurship.
• He wants to protect against violence and drugs with strict laws and enforcement.
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
3-Tour Combat Vet, Philosopher and Law Student
RJ Harris
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Harris Position on Poverty
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Eliminate personal income taxes and the burden of the cost of federal socialism. Reduce the costs of citizenship to the point that citizens will have the disposable income needed to fully fund and support private charity.
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Declared 2012
Democratic Presidential Candidate
Current President of the United States
Barack Obama
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Obama Position on Poverty
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• During his campaign in 2008, Barack Obama voiced a firm commitment to reduce poverty by announcing that it is through the conjoined efforts of everyone involved that poverty could be reduced to half its actual figure during the next ten years.
• Assigning poverty the status of being a national priority, Barack Obama has supported the introduction of a new Federal measure of poverty which is supposed to be more accurate and helpful in tackling its after-effects on the following generations. Hence, the modern guidelines of federal poverty are meant to reflect the costs of living and study the various sources due to which the American families face economic pressure.
• In order to translate his statements to reality, Barack Obama outlined a plan consisting of various proposals in a bid to fight rural poverty. Some of the salient points of his proposals were development of telecommunication technology in rural America, improving the infrastructure by investing in water and sewer system and building small city airports.
• In his urban poverty program, Obama vowed to create twenty dream neighborhoods in various cities across the country based on the lines of the Harlem Children's Zone in New York City.
• The urban poverty program has also been designed by Obama to fight concentrated poverty in American cities by creating more economic opportunities, recruiting more teachers and making the profession of teaching attractive by augmenting the salary and providing support services.
• A noteworthy proposal made by Obama in the direction of reducing urban poverty was the creation of 'Affordable Housing Trust Fund' as a result of which 112,000 new affordable units would be added in the mixed income neighborhood.
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Romney Position on Poverty
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• Mitt Romney holds the opinion that the biggest reason for the success of Americans is their belief in God and their ability to capitalize on opportunities. Saying that the American DNA is laced with opportunity, he blames the welfare programs of the yesteryears for having created a culture of poverty which he feels is still lurking and threatening to destroy the American culture.
• Being opposed to the issue of giving cash hand-outs to poor workers, Mitt Romney feels that a better way of dealing with the problem is to bring about growth in the business sector, create jobs and thus generate more income.
• When the state proposed a project with the intention of overcoming and preventing homelessness and assigned a huge amount for the issue, Mitt Romney, the then Governor, vetoed the entire program and reduced the amount significantly for one program because he disapproved of it completely. However, both programs would receive funds which would enable them to carry out their objectives.
• Mitt Romney has suggested three major policy changes namely requiring the recipients to go to work immediately, eliminating firms which invest in inner city enterprise zone from paying taxes on capital gains and awarding tax credits to companies which hire poor residents and provide them with stable employment.
• Mitt Romney has also proposed minimum sentences which would not only be mandatory on criminals but would also be tough. This is to ensure the reduction of crime through tough measures and its ultimate crackdown.
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Snyder Position on Poverty
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"Poverty is not the result of bad luck; it is the result of bad decisions. Therefore, it can only be defeated through education. Fighting poverty with welfare programs is like fixing a heat pump by passing out sweaters. Welfare only helps people cope with the problem. It doesn’t fix the problem."
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Wuensche Position on Poverty
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• Wuensche believes that we should help those in our society who because of mental or physical reasons cannot help themselves. But he believes that requiring all others to be productive is the best way to help them.
• He believes that handouts only create destructive dependency.
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