"If the Administration moves to a chained price index, by 2030, the poverty line for a family of four would be $691 lower than it would be using the existing inflation index."
-Subcommittee on Government Operations Chair @GerryConnolly
-Subcommittee on Government Operations Chair @GerryConnolly
@GerryConnolly "The Administration cannot solve the nation’s poverty problem by simply lowering the dollar amount that defines poverty and claiming victory. The Administration’s efforts disregard the hardships that those experiencing poverty endure. " -Chair Connolly
@GerryConnolly "Given the critically flawed assumptions baked into the proposal, it is no surprise that OMB received over 57,000 comments and counting, most in opposition to lowering the inflation index for the Official Poverty Measure." -Chair Connolly
@GerryConnolly "The Administration’s proposal to lower the poverty line ignores growing income inequality and, to me, misses the point entirely. The inadequacy of the existing poverty calculation is that it's too low, not that it's too high." -Chair Connolly
@GerryConnolly "I commend my colleague, @RepAOC, on her legislation, The Recognizing Poverty Act, that tackles the inadequacy of our current poverty measure by directing the @HHSGov and statistical agencies to propose a new poverty line that makes more sense." -Chair Connolly
@GerryConnolly @RepAOC @HHSGov "If there's one basic value that ought to unite us, on this Committee, and in the Congress, as Democrats and Republicans – it's how we treat our children." -Chair Connolly
"It doesn't matter where these children live or whose children they are, they're in our care. They are in our charge. They are America's children." -Chair Connolly
