States have a role to play on war on poverty (which, by the way, isn’t over)
“If the war on poverty has ended, as the Trump administration recently declared, there’s a huge swath of workers who haven’t heard the news. They live in fear that a layoff or medical problem will push them into a financial crisis. They struggle with slow wage growth that barely keeps pace with the cost of living. Inflation hit 2.9 percent for the 12-month period ending in June as costs for gasoline, housing, and food kept growing. At the same time, wages grew by less than 3 percent, hardly making up for increased costs for those items.”