Post by pavel on Jan 18, 2016 16:21:58 GMT -6
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s poverty panel at Dallas public library not open to the public
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan has made fighting poverty a signature issue, which in turn has made him a leading Republican voice on the matter. But the comments he made about poverty in Dallas today happened behind closed doors.
Ryan was part of a an RSVP-only event at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library downtown along with anti-gang activists Antong Lucky and the Rev. Omar Jahwar of Kingdom Worship and Restoration Church. Both Dallas men were the speaker’s guests at President Obama’s final State of the Union last week.
But attendees said the Speaker did little speaking. Instead, Ryan told the crowd he was mainly there to listen about how poverty affects people — and how difficult it is to climb out of.
“That was huge,” said Candace Fleming, a middle school teacher who traveled from Houston for the event. “The solutions are made on the Hill, but if they don’t listen to what’s really going on, then they can’t cure the problem.”
Read more: trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2016/01/house-speaker-paul-ryan-poverty-dallas-library.html/
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan has made fighting poverty a signature issue, which in turn has made him a leading Republican voice on the matter. But the comments he made about poverty in Dallas today happened behind closed doors.
Ryan was part of a an RSVP-only event at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library downtown along with anti-gang activists Antong Lucky and the Rev. Omar Jahwar of Kingdom Worship and Restoration Church. Both Dallas men were the speaker’s guests at President Obama’s final State of the Union last week.
But attendees said the Speaker did little speaking. Instead, Ryan told the crowd he was mainly there to listen about how poverty affects people — and how difficult it is to climb out of.
“That was huge,” said Candace Fleming, a middle school teacher who traveled from Houston for the event. “The solutions are made on the Hill, but if they don’t listen to what’s really going on, then they can’t cure the problem.”
Read more: trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2016/01/house-speaker-paul-ryan-poverty-dallas-library.html/