Asking the questions the poverty industry doesn't

Jason L. Riley writes,

Robert L. Woodson Sr. is a no-nonsense black conservative who heads the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise.

About a year ago Paul Ryan asked Woodson to take him on a listening tour. He took Ryan

on 12 trips—all to high-crime, drug-infested neighborhoods. And he was not just touched but blown away by what he saw."

How does Woodson operate?

"We go around the country like a Geiger counter, looking at high-crime neighborhoods and asking the questions the poverty industry doesn't.

"If we see that 70% of households are raising children out of wedlock, that means 30% are not. We want to know what the 30% are doing right. How are they raising kids who aren't dropping out of school or on drugs or in jail? We seek SEK.AU +0.54% them out—we call them the antibodies of the community—and put a microphone on them, and say, 'tell us how you did this.' "

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Thanks to Scott Ott.