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Paul Ryan cites 'white nationalist' to blame poverty on lazy men in 'inner cities' (Click on this heading to read more)

By David Edwards
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 11:54 EDT
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Wednesday suggested that men in "inner cities" who refused to work were one of the main causes of poverty in the United States.
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In an interview with conservative radio host Bill Bennett that was first noticed by Igor Volsky at Think Progress, Ryan reflected on his controversial poverty discussion at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference.
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"We call it a poverty trap," he explained. "There are incentives not to work, and to stay where you are."

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Ryan also pointed to the work of Charles Murray, a white nationalist, who has used "racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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"That's this tailspin or spiral that we're looking at in our communities," he told Bennett. "Your buddy Charles Murray or Bob Putnam over at Harvard, those guys have written books on this."