Profiles in Poverty: It Takes Mutual Obligation to Maintain the Safety Net from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
"Who deserves to be poor? Asked that way, the question invites a personal value judgment that does not lend itself to objective analysis. But posed another way -- who should get taxpayers' help to escape poverty? -- the question affects social policy, and political demagoguery, at all levels of government. ... These discussions are relevant for the Pittsburgh region, where 12.2 percent of residents live below the poverty line ..."
"Who deserves to be poor? Asked that way, the question invites a personal value judgment that does not lend itself to objective analysis. But posed another way -- who should get taxpayers' help to escape poverty? -- the question affects social policy, and political demagoguery, at all levels of government. ... These discussions are relevant for the Pittsburgh region, where 12.2 percent of residents live below the poverty line ..."
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