2007 Poverty Scorecard: Rating Members of Congress

Members of Congress in States with Highest Poverty Least Likely to Support Anti-Poverty Measures Members of Congress from states with high rates of poverty are less likely to support anti-poverty measures than other members of Congress, according to the 2007 Poverty Scorecard: Rating Members of Congress, released by the Shriver Center today. The Scorecard assigns letter grades to each member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives according to their voting records on the most important poverty-related issues that came to a vote in 2007, including legislation on affordable housing, health care, education, labor, tax policy and immigrants' rights. With the help of a national advisory board and other anti-poverty experts, the Shriver Center identified and analyzed fourteen critical Senate votes and fifteen critical House votes.

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