i came back to study the new welfare regime namely, eitc. you get about the same from the eit see as you did from the welfare, but you get the claim wages. it comes in as a lump sum at tax time. that is why you see all those dancing guys outside. 70% of claimers get there claim from a ford profit tax preparer. what i learned from the new recipients of the tax regime -- welfare regime is that something radically different had happened in regards to citizenship. let's take h&r block that is seven blocks away from the overseers of public welfare in east boston, they are, you're greeted with a smile. there are signs that say "money in minutes," a popular campaign slogan that h&r block was using in interview after interview. what we saw is that people viewed the eitc as a radically incorporating experience, almost a brand of citizenship. laura and i wrote an op-ed about this two weeks ago. why was this social policy or social provision, so radically different from what preceded it? what we learned was that it was very important that it was tied t

the eitc maintains high expectations. but we need to do so in a radically incorporating way. now, let me emphasize that i've become in favor of approaches that are really fully in line with american values. we make this argument in "it's not like i'm poor" and my forthcoming forthcoming book which will be out in september. so this is why i'm so intent on why i'm talking about high expectations with regards to child support. ultimately, the history of social policy in america suggests that this is the best way forward, not only for us but for everyone including the disease enfranchised. as i've spent much of my career documenting, the poor share many of the cultural values that we all do. orlando has pointed that out beautifully. one core american value that rings true over and over again, and we can see it in the polling data, is that americans along with valuing self-sufficiency desire and have a strong sense of community. americans want to help the poor, they just don't want to help the poor through welfare. finally, i do want to make one remark about baltimore. as a new da

the eitc is a good way to do it. the oakland school district of giving a bonus rather than baking something into the salaries is a good idea. but what he didn't address is what caused the problems when the tide goes out. for example, spending today in california on most services is lower now than it was before the recession even though revenues are up 30% higher. and that's because the state is spending so much more on health care pensions retiree health care and compensation. he didn't address those problems. that's what he is going to do if he is going to address the cycle. >> you mentioned health care. and the governor put money in the budget just in case for medical if president obama's executive order putting some folks here without documents on the path to citizenship. let's hear how he described what he did and why. >> we're putting money in for immigrant health care to cover those in the event that president obama is successful in putting a certain number of immigrants on the path to citizenship. >> john myer

average of $900 billion on 16 million low- and moderate income families by allowing expansion to the eitc and child at the time to expire so there's no expansion of that program. now, who else can we hit? maybe we can hit some of our states that are suffering from the realities of climate change like the western states that are undergoing the longest recorded drought in history. come to talk to my farmers ask them how happy they are that you are proposing dramatic cuts and have imposed them in this budget to the e.p.a., to the department of interior, to noaa the agencies best equipped to steward our precious natural resources develop a clean energy future, enforce our water laws and protect our health. but wait a minute there's a few people who are left away from this budget knife. well if you drive a car or you drive a truck or you get on a bus, you get hit too. listen to this one. at a time when 63,500 of our bridges structurally deficient and 50% of our roads are in less than good condition, this budget cuts transportation and infrastructure investment by more than $200 billion over te