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Former GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s poverty reform is off to a rocky start. Ryan appeared on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America on Wednesday, and told the conservative host that part of his agenda is to create work requirements to deal with the “real culture problem” of men “in our inner cities.” Ryan told the host: “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.” In releasing a 204-page report on American anti-poverty programs, Ryan argued that the programs have actually contributed to the high rate of poverty.