Working Poor Moms Challenge Meg Whitman to a Debate

Working poor mothers and Latina immigrant mothers are challenging Meg Whitman to a debate about poverty, unemployment, homelessness, affordable housing, and other issues affecting poor and immigrant communities. Tracey Faulkner has been working with Poor Magazine for the past 13 years. She created and runs the Family Resource Center at San Francisco's City College, which supports student parents.

Tracey Faulkner makes $30,000 a year to run a center that empowers student parents and help them get through school. Meg Whitman is spending $500,000 a day on her gubernatorial campaign.

Poor Magazine: http://www.poormagazine.org/
Family Resource Center: http://www.ccsf.edu/Resources/Family_Resource_Center/

Ad buys, 56 consultants account for bulk of Whitman's spending - California Watch
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What Else Whitman Could Have Done With Her $100 Million Shopping Spree - California Progress Report
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New Meg Whitman radio ad proposes welfare cuts - Capitol Alert
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Meg Whitman on welfare and spending cuts (raw video) - The Orange County Register
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According to the Western Center on Law & Poverty, "both Whitman and her primary challenger Steve Poisner targeted CalWORKs during the recently concluded campaign. Whitman's radio ads have repeatedly stressed that California's welfare program is too large when compared with other states like New York. But the difference in payments by each state's taxpayers suggest something entirely different. California is able to help five times as many poor families as New York at a lower cost per taxpayer than New York. Five Times!

The truth is that the CalWORKs program is one of the most effective and efficient programs operated by the state of California. Sixteen years ago California spent $3.7 billion a year on the old AFDC program but today, even in the midst of a deep recession, the state spends just $2.1 billion on CalWORKs. Even less now due to budget reductions to welfare to work activities. CalWORKs is not causing the budget crisis and in fact should be a model of government at its best."
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Open Letter to Californians Regarding Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman's Economic Policy Proposals
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[mg5679]

If you can't feed them, don't breed them.

[boomer8791]

What will a struggling democratic republic have to do with any of this? 50% of americans pay no taxes and 40% of the dollars spent by government is borrowed. Those on assistance continue to assume the basics will be furnished by a bankrupt taxpayer welfare system. The current entitlement levels can't be sustained. I suggest a new community approach that helps all people become self-sufficient as necessary. Unless events evolve in a very unlikely way we will all need those specialized skils.

[Anothercoilgun]

Please vote Nightingale.

[astraia1x]

great series of videos illustrating meg whitman's detachment from reality.