Is Poverty Really Worse Than Ever? | Dr. Scott Winship

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🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Bernie and the Squad want you to believe poverty and income inequality are worse than ever in America. But what's the truth? Dr. Scott Winship, director of poverty studies at American Enterprise Institute, joins us to look at the current state of poverty in America. We examine Bernie's claims that the rich are stealing wealth from the middle class, assess how our social welfare programs and safety net benefits are impacting everything from employment to income mobility to intergenerational poverty, and ask what reforms we could implement to help Americans who are truly trapped in the poverty cycle.

Dr. Scott Winship is a senior fellow and the director of poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he researches social mobility and the causes and effects of poverty. He also focuses on economic insecurity and inequality, among other poverty issues. Follow him on Twitter at @swinshi.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	But all men are created.
0:04.0	Because I remember Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:09.2	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.0	Hey, welcome back everybody.
0:26.0	Back to some policy deep dives.
0:28.0	Hope you learned something today.
0:30.0	So to help you learn, where you have a PhD with us, a PhD from Harvard nonetheless.
0:36.0	Dr. Scott Winship, thanks so much for being on.
0:40.0	Oh, pleasure. Thanks for having me on.
0:42.0	So I got along by Ophoria, but I'm just going to say you're a senior fellow and director of poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
0:48.0	So as the audience might guess, we're going to talk about poverty.
0:52.0	It's a good subject to dive into, especially as a Republican.
0:56.0	It's always accused of not caring about poverty.
1:00.0	And the left likes to make extravagant claims about it.
1:04.0	Was it, it was a Cory Bush?
1:06.0	Cory Bush tweeted yesterday.
1:08.0	No.
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