National Public Radio: on Welfare & Poverty


Bernie Sanders: Sanders supports economic help for blacks, not reparations

Sanders said he supports reparations, but the specific policy he describes here doesn't fit what experts say is the definition of such a policy. The point of reparations is to address the wrongs of discriminatory policies, including slavery, Jim Crow laws and redlining. "Something that is economically inclusive but has a racial bent to it--those may or may not be good policies," Ohio State University professor Darrick Hamilton told NPR, "but let's be clear: It's not reparations."
Source: NPR Morning Edition: Election 2020 Special Series Mar 18, 2019

Howard Dean: Children and schools suffer under Bush policies

Kids are losing health insurance every day because of what Bush is doing. If he gets re-elected, those people are going to suffer. Schools are going down the tubes in inner cities and rural areas all over America. Those people are going to suffer if Bush gets re-elected. And so what I see in [the Nader] candidacy is the perfect becoming the enemy of the good. In the long run, this is about American people who can't defend themselves against the kind of administration that Bush has.
Source: NPR, "Justice Talking" Dean-Nader Debate Jul 9, 2004

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