2008 Presidential Candidate Survey
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Dear Friends of the Shriver Center,
When Katrina pummeled the Gulf States two years ago, the hurricane brought to our nation’s attention a state without borders, a state whose geography extends beyond the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans: it is America’s State of Poverty. The State of Poverty encompasses thirty-seven million people--more than one out of every ten Americans. With three million more people than California, the State of Poverty is our country’s largest state.
As we approach the 2008 presidential elections, we must bring up the not inconsequential matter of ending abject poverty in the United States for the candidates to discuss and the voters to consider. The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law surveyed all announced presidential candidates on their perspectives on a broad range of issues. Of the 123 candidates surveyed, 30 responded to our questions about health coverage, budget and tax policies, unemployment and work supports, housing, asset building, and crime and reentry.
Conducting this survey is consistent with the Shriver Center’s mission and agenda to take action to end poverty. We are a national law and policy center that uses law and policy to advance economic and social justice. Our mission is not simply to manage poverty but to lead a national movement to end it.
We contacted every announced candidate, we are publishing the responses as we received them, and we are publishing every candidate’s response without grammatical or spelling edits. Because we designated a fifty-word response limit per question, each candidate’s response is truncated at fifty words. If you are interested in seeing the full responses of any or all candidates, please call Amanda Freund at 312.263.3830 ext. 236 to make an appointment at the Shriver Center office.
We hope that this survey provides you with easily accessible information about poverty and how our next president will deal with it. We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues and others interested in promoting viable solutions to ending poverty in communities across America.
Sincerely,
John Bouman
President
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Dear Friends of the Shriver Center,
When Katrina pummeled the Gulf States two years ago, the hurricane brought to our nation’s attention a state without borders, a state whose geography extends beyond the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans: it is America’s State of Poverty. The State of Poverty encompasses thirty-seven million people--more than one out of every ten Americans. With three million more people than California, the State of Poverty is our country’s largest state.
As we approach the 2008 presidential elections, we must bring up the not inconsequential matter of ending abject poverty in the United States for the candidates to discuss and the voters to consider. The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law surveyed all announced presidential candidates on their perspectives on a broad range of issues. Of the 123 candidates surveyed, 30 responded to our questions about health coverage, budget and tax policies, unemployment and work supports, housing, asset building, and crime and reentry.
Conducting this survey is consistent with the Shriver Center’s mission and agenda to take action to end poverty. We are a national law and policy center that uses law and policy to advance economic and social justice. Our mission is not simply to manage poverty but to lead a national movement to end it.
We contacted every announced candidate, we are publishing the responses as we received them, and we are publishing every candidate’s response without grammatical or spelling edits. Because we designated a fifty-word response limit per question, each candidate’s response is truncated at fifty words. If you are interested in seeing the full responses of any or all candidates, please call Amanda Freund at 312.263.3830 ext. 236 to make an appointment at the Shriver Center office.
We hope that this survey provides you with easily accessible information about poverty and how our next president will deal with it. We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues and others interested in promoting viable solutions to ending poverty in communities across America.
Sincerely,
John Bouman
President
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
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