House Budget Committee releases poverty program report
March 03, 2014 | 03:59 PM
The House Budget Committee today released a report on federal anti-poverty programs, including a chapter on domestic food.
The report says this catalogue should be the beginning of an evaluation of all the programs, and notes that a number of the food aid programs have not been evaluated much.
In general, the report concludes, “Federal programs are not only failing to address the problem. They are also in some significant respects making it worse. Changes are clearly necessary, and the first step is to evaluate what the federal government is doing right now.”
The report says this catalogue should be the beginning of an evaluation of all the programs, and notes that a number of the food aid programs have not been evaluated much.
In general, the report concludes, “Federal programs are not only failing to address the problem. They are also in some significant respects making it worse. Changes are clearly necessary, and the first step is to evaluate what the federal government is doing right now.”
