Mayor Delivers Poverty Speech in DC

New York, NY —

Mayor Bloomberg made another big policy speech outside of New York yesterday. He spoke in Washington reducing poverty, both locally and nationally. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

First it was gun control, then immigration and now it's reducing poverty that Mayor Bloomberg is taking to a national stage. The speech in front of several hundred people many of them media took place at the Brookings Institution, an independent think tank.

Bloomberg outlined his local initiative to pay a few thousand poor families who make sure among other things that their kids have good school attendance. Nationally, the mayor proposed expanding a tax credit for the working poor that would target single men and not just women with children. He believes dads who don't pay child support though should be excluded from receiving anything from the IRS.

After the speech, the mayor was peppered with questions about whether he's running for president, to which he replied an adamant no. For WNYC, I'm Cindy Rodriguez.