Jared Bernstein: The Trump administration’s new poverty report builds a phony rationale to punish the poor

Instead of the old, false conservative canard that we have lost the War on Poverty, the CEA declares victory.

Kevin Hassett, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers talks to reporters during a press briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, in Washington, Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Jared Bernstein: The Trump administration’s new poverty report builds a phony rationale to punish the poor

Instead of the old, false conservative canard that we have lost the War on Poverty, the CEA declares victory.

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