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Here's Paul Ryan's new antipoverty plan

By Andrew Prokop
Bill Clark, CQ-Roll Call Group
Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and before that, he worked as a research assistant at the New Yorker’s Washington, DC, bureau.

This morning, House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan unveiled his new plan to combat poverty and expand opportunity in the US. You can read the full plan, which Ryan calls a discussion draft, here. And you can watch video of Ryan discussing the plan at the American Enterprise Institute below:

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