Center for American Progress Statement on Rep. Ryan’s Poverty Report

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2014.   Melissa Boteach, Vice President of the Poverty and Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress, issued the following reaction to the U.S. House Budget Committee report on poverty released today by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI):

Rep. Ryan wrongly labeled the War on Poverty a failure—what has really failed is our nation’s economy, which is not producing enough living wage jobs to help people move into the middle class.…