You really should listen to VPR's Vermont Edition every day. Jane Lindholm and the rest of the Vermont Edition staff consistently find interesting, timely, and important stories and present them with knowledgeable and involved guests. The show is one of the best additions to VPR's news coverage in the last few years.

Today's broadcast is an important one because they will be talking about what it takes to help people get out of poverty.

This is especially important today because we're in the legislative end game of a session in which the administration has been trying to cap and limit public assistance even for families who have not been able to find employment and become self-supporting. In fact, as VtDigger reported last week, the administration wants to not only limit benefits, but also to cut the jobs of people who are supposed to be helping get families off the welfare rolls.

Does this make sense to you? Not to me either. 

When you listen today you might want to call in at (800)639-2211 and tell the listeners what you think of the idea of time limiting benefits while slashing efforts to help people out of poverty.