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of Green  December 06, 2009  By Max Schulz   Barack Obama
assumed office in January with an agenda that must be described
as exceedingly ambitious. This is true even by the standards of
incoming presidents, who all tend to show up for work on the
first day with grand plans for accomplishment. Obama’s election,
according to the conventional wisdom, heralded a new and
transformational era in our nation’s politics. The proposals
that formed the cornerstone of his campaign, and on which his
new administration is building, reflect a determination to
fundamentally change many of our core assumptions about society
and the economy.  Two of the most critical and ambitious
elements of President Obama’s program focus on addressing
questions of poverty (particularly in Amer