Today, at House of Help City of Hope in Anacostia, Republicans unveiled an initiative aimed at lifting people out of poverty and onto the ladder of opportunity. It is the first plank of
A Better Way, a bold policy agenda to tackle some of the country’s biggest challenges.
Our plan—available now at
better.gop—includes ideas to:
- Reward work. A good job is the surest way out of poverty. If you are capable, we will expect you to work or prepare for work.
- Tailor benefits to people’s needs. Instead of the same failed one-size-fits-all approach, we will match poverty-fighting programs with your needs more effectively so that it’s easier to keep a job and start a family.
- Improve skills and schools. To help protect the next generation from poverty, we will make sure that poor kids have more opportunities to succeed at every stage, from childhood through college.
- Plan and save for the future. To help you stay on the path from dependence to independence, we will make it easier for you and your family to plan for the future and be retirement-ready.
- Demand results. We will open up the system to accountability and collaboration with local communities, backing ideas that work on the front lines every day.
These ideas were developed by the Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility, which includes: Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA), Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX).
About A Better Way. A Better Way is a bold policy agenda to address some of the country’s biggest challenges. It takes our timeless principles—liberty, free enterprise, consent of the governed—and applies them to the problems of our time. Developed with input from around the country, it starts the debate now on what we can achieve in 2017 and beyond. It is our vision for a Confident America, at home and abroad. Now we are taking these ideas to the people, so you have a clear choice about the direction of the country. To learn more, visit better.gop.
About House of Help City of Hope. House of Help City Of Hope is a poverty-fighting organization founded by Bishop Shirley Holloway. Holloway, whose motto is “we don't see the problem; we see the person,” left her job at the U.S. Postal Service to start this faith-based residential treatment program. She was one of Speaker Ryan's guests at this year's State of the Union address.
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