The one fact that destroys Paul Ryan's anti-poverty plan

Even six years after the "recovery" started, there still aren't enough jobs

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Last week Paul Ryan got another in a long line of inexplicable journalist tongue baths about how deeply concerned he is about poverty, this one practically indistinguishable from the last round. It even features the same reporter, McKay Coppins.

Now, I don't personally buy Paul Ryan's shtick for a moment. When you look at the content of his policy proposals, it overwhelmingly consists of slashing the bejesus out of programs on which millions of poor folks currently depend, and replacing them with bupkis.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.