A Hug from Paul Ryan

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"You’re not going to solve poverty in a five-minute deal. That’s clearly not going to happen. You can’t even explain why people are poor in five minutes. So, how can we get people to pay attention to this issue and feel emotional about it and feel the urgency? For us, that was to focus on Tianna Gaines-Turner and her family and their struggle, because we felt like it represents the issue in the larger sense." - Sheena Joyce (& Don Argott), Co-Directors, A HUG FROM PAUL RYAN

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Release Date:	May 17, 2016
Running Time:	6 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

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A HUG FROM PAUL RYAN follows Tianna Gaines-Turner, one of America’s working poor, after her testimony at the 2014 House Budget Committee’s “War on Poverty” hearing. Sharing a personal moment with Paul Ryan, then House Budget Committee Chairman, Tianna hoped her voice, representative of millions of Americans, would be a call to action. One year post-hug, has anything really changed?