What we need is to focus on the real crises of health care and Medicare and on expanding opportunities for poor, working and middle- class families who are struggling now.

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And the main focus has been on the middle class and the poor, but what about working-class families?

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And we need to cut the Medicaid program by a third -- this helps poor kids, most of them in working families.

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We applaud the recent efforts of Congress to eradicate or reduce the marriage penalty for those with higher levels of income, but these efforts have overlooked the most at-risk sector of our society: families headed by the working poor.

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Since 1979, the proportion of the poor who live in households containing children and no working adults, especially one-parent families, has climbed.

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According to a report released in 2010 by the Working Poor Families Project, in 2008 45 million people, including 22 million children, lived in low-income households.

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