Obama at Poverty Summit
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From the Right
Obama to target lack of opportunity at poverty summitAt a summit on poverty Tuesday, President Obama will discuss his belief that recent high-profile confrontations between police and blacks are often a result of a lack of economic opportunity.
“As the president has made clear, these issues are not new,” White House aide Jerry Abramson said in an email to supporters. “What we are witnessing in cities across America is not only about policing. This is also about opportunity.”
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From the Left
Obama draws line between racial segregation of the past and class segregation todayMore than a week after streets in Baltimore erupted in violence, President Barack Obama attempted on Tuesday to pinpoint the roots of the unrest there, which he says include a lack of opportunity for inner-city youth and laws that make it difficult to escape a cycle of crime.
Joining prominent policy experts to discuss the roots and potential solutions to poverty, Obama identified what he said was a troubling trend toward social stratification that separates the well-off from the poor.
"What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in...
From the Left
Conference Gives Obama Opportunity to Discuss Poverty and RaceDuring two campaigns and most of his time in office, President Obama has portrayed himself as the champion of a middle class fighting to recover from a devastating economic collapse.
But eruptions of racial tensions in Baltimore; Ferguson, Mo.; and Staten Island have accelerated a shift in the later stages of Mr. Obama’s presidency, as the nation’s first black president begins to refocus his administration’s attention on the plight of the poor, especially in African-American communities.
On Tuesday, the president extended that effort by participating in a panel discussion at...
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