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Poverty and Domestic PolicyBy Michael J. ManzoCandidate for United States Representative; District 38; Democratic Party |
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Poverty affects everyone in the 38th District. Either through unemployment, homelessness, a lack of an education, involvement in crime, or misfortune, poverty touches every corner of our district. In 2003, 25 percent of people were living in poverty. Twenty-four percent of related children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 8 percent of people 65 years old and over. Twelve percent of all families and 31 percent of families with a female householder and no husband present had incomes below the poverty level. Eighteen percent of the households in Congressional District 38 received means-tested public assistance or non-cash benefits. It is an outrage when 1/3 of single mothers in Congressional District 38 are living in poverty. The time is now to reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to States for assistance for needy families, improve access to quality child care, and to get women and men living in poverty re-educated and placed in the workforce as part of an overall strategy to become part of the community and the nation. There are several bills of importance to the 38th District that will be up coming in the 109th Congress that must be secured for my vision of Congressional District 38.
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