Editor’s Note: Politicians, the media and the public have largely ignored the crisis of poverty in the United States, possibly because the poor don’t have an active political lobby to represent their interests, writes NAM contributor Earl Ofari Hutchinson. The figure on...

Obama encourages new programs such as debate in publc and private schools. PROBLEM AREA V: POVERTY Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States. Unfortunately, more than four decades...