If you care about poor people, you have to think about the economy in a sensible, conservative way. We obviously don't think Governor Bush is doing that. We think he's taking some severe risks with the economy. Secondly, there is a very, very rich record that is Al Gore and Bill Clinton's record on helping poor people. Hispanic unemployment is at an all-time low.
Home ownership is at an all-time high in the United States.
There has been an incredible amount of reinvention at HUD, spurred by the vice president's reinventing government movement. HUD is a very different, very vibrant place. During the Clinton administration we tore down the big, big buildings which were the symbol of the failed public housing policies of the past and are replacing them under Hope 6 and other initiatives, with mixed income, low density housing, revitalizing neighborhoods all around the country. The vice president has been chair of the Community Empowerment force, which was a program passed in the first term, and there's been a second wave of financing passed for it. It focuses on creating empowerment zones around the country, both urban and rural, and those empowerment zones are making significant progress in fact in revitalizing neighborhoods and taking a holistic approach, one that we didn't use to have, to the problems of urban neighborhoods, rural neighborhoods, and really poor neighborhoods, looking at social services in conjunction with economic development.