BOSTON – Protesters backing an amendment to increase funding for youth jobs programs were escorted out of the gallery in the House of Representatives during the budget debate Tuesday after they began chanting at lawmakers and displayed a banner reading, "What you fund can build or ruin lives."
The group, representing the Youth Jobs Coalition, then gathered at the entrance of the chamber, yelling, "Whose budget? Our budget!" and "What do we want? Youth jobs!"
"Poverty is changing, and policy responses must change too," argues an important recent report published by the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute and the left-leaning Brookings Institution.
The document — the product of a bipartisan group of top scholars — combines political diversity with shared values to make a dozen recommendations for strengthening families, work, and education in the United States.
