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Latest Promises In Poverty
Joe Biden
Give disadvantaged communities 40% of spending benefits related to clean energy
Independent assessments show mixed results from environmental justice push
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December 17, 2024
Barack Obama
Expand the earned income tax credit
Past expansions of Earned Income Tax Credit are extended for five more years
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January 3, 2013
Barack Obama
Expand the YouthBuild program, a youth education and housing program.
YouthBuild is bigger, but not as big as the goal
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November 28, 2012
Barack Obama
Double U.S. spending on foreign aid to $50 billion a year by 2012
An increase, but nowhere close to double
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November 20, 2012
Barack Obama
Establish ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ for areas of concentrated poverty
$10 million appropriation gets program underway
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May 17, 2010
