In a campaign speech in Ohio, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan spoke about the high rate of poverty in America, saying, “in this war on poverty, poverty is winning.”  In The New York Times, however, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz compared the rhetoric to the candidate’s budget, concluding that the proposed cuts to vital programs for the poor would only worsen growing economic inequality.  In The Washington Post Jonathan Capehart similarly critiqued Ryan’s policies, saying that under a Romney administration assistance programs would be threatened.—Ryan Scott