Don't ever forget that the republican leadership has consistently opposed legislation which would benefit poor families in health care, welfare, taxes, child care, education, food, shelter, legal defense. Knowing one's race, then their income and if they smoke or not, are the three big questions the insurance companies need to judge health and longevity. Even the Democratic plan to tax cigarettes is wrong. In fact it should be higher. 26 million people.
Welfare reform is a real winner.
19 million children live in one parent households while conservatives not only promote parents stay home with their kids and keep them out of daycare, but attack welfare recipients with children for not working. As welfare benefits have decreased over the past 20 years, out of wedlock births have risen substantially. 35,000 welfare recipients have been forced into workfare in NYC and do not get minimum wage, health care, union representation or vacations, or any hope of it. Repeal of the The Nursing Home Refrom Act which regulates them. Needle exchange programs wherever they have been used also reduces addiction rates by getting to the addicts and into treatment.