Trump touts Tim Scott's anti-poverty plan while communities wait and wonder
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump kicked off the past week by unveiling a budget that slashed spending for some of the country’s major anti-poverty programs.
Days later, he hosted a big White House event to promote a program that its sponsor, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., touted as “the most consequential policy that we’ve seen in more than a decade in helping the poor that doesn’t already exist.”
Brett Theodos of the Urban Institute, a Washington-based research group, saw a lot of unknowns.
He said the initiative giving some tax breaks to business that put down roots in impoverished neighborhoods to be called “opportunity zones” would yield “modest” incentives. He thought it could make a real difference in communities where gaps in certain services are most profound.
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