Some of the new announcements in your budget, however well intentioned, really aren't hitting the mark--for example, the program to supplement the working poor. I don't know if you're aware, but an analysis has been done of that, and a family with two people working full-time and making minimum wage actually makes too much money. They're making minimum wage. It has been determined that you can't really look after yourself at $8 an hour, even with two people working, because of the costs for child care and other needs. They don't qualify for any of that money. A single person working full-time on minimum wage is not making enough to hit that target either. You have two huge groups of people in our country who will not benefit, by one cent, from that program.
On May 15th, 2007. See this statement in context.