by James Pethokoukis
As the Manhattan Institute’s Scott Winship notes in “Room to Grow,” ” … upward mobility among young adults who grew up poor is no higher today than it was in the mid-twentieth century.” That problem is what the Ryan reforms — from welfare to education to prison — mean to address.
The Ayn Rand Institute is disappointed in Paul Ryan, claiming that the House Budget chairman went to all the trouble of rolling out an antipoverty plan and somehow forgot to obliterate the safety net. However, it is a stubborn fact that the safety net has cut US poverty, material deprivation, in half since the 1960s. Unfortunately in too many cases, poverty is a trap. The Ryan plan reforms intend to address the lack of upward mobility in the US and to give everyone a chance at the American dream.
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