{"id":1819,"date":"2004-05-24T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T18:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1819.html"},"modified":"2004-05-24T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T18:21:37","slug":"administration-believes-being-poor-is-a-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/administration-believes-being-poor-is-a-state-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Administration believes being poor is &#8216;a state of mind&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, the House Financial Services Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/financialservices.house.gov\/hearings.asp?formmode=detail&#038;hearing=307\">held a hearing<\/a> late last week with new Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson. <\/p>\n<p>Section 8 housing subsidies aren&#8217;t getting a lot of attention right now, but administration proposals on housing policy are likely to have a serious impact on millions of low-income families who live at or below the poverty level.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration, anxious to cut spending to make room for tax cuts for millionaires, has sought to scale back housing aid through Section 8 dramatically. In April, HUD announced the agency would no longer fully subsidize its housing vouchers, which would naturally lead to higher rents for millions of poor families and\/or evictions. &#8220;Compassionate&#8221; conservatism in action.<\/p>\n<p>With this mind, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2004\/05\/22\/hud_earmarks_funding_for_section_8_housing\/\">Alphonso Jackson&#8217;s comments<\/a> on the Hill last week were startling, even for this administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We will continue to work hand in hand with the public housing authorities to apply the funding cap in the fairest manner possible,&#8221; Jackson said Thursday in his first appearance before the House Financial Services Committee since being confirmed by the Senate in March.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson angered some Democrats on the committee when he said in response to a question: &#8220;I do not believe being poor is a condition; it is a state of mind.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t so absurd, it&#8217;d almost be funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing late last week with new Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson. Section 8 housing subsidies aren&#8217;t getting a lot of attention right now, but administration proposals on housing policy are likely to have a serious impact on millions of low-income families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}