Hudson announces poverty tour

U.S. Rep Richard Hudson next week will tour the newly redrawn 8th Congressional District to tout a policy package introduced by House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Hudson, a Republican from Concord, announced the tour on Friday.

He’s scheduled to stop in at the Baptist Children’s Home of N.C. in Moore County on Monday. On Tuesday, he’s scheduled to attend an opioid abuse roundtable at Fayetteville City Hall and accept an award from the Centralina Workforce Development Board at an event at the NC Research Campus. From 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Hudson is scheduled to participate in a nonprofit roundtable at the Cabarrus County Chamber of Commerce — 3003 Dale Earnhardt Boulevard in Kannapolis.

Called “A Better Way,” the Ryan policy package includes ideas about a variety of topics, including poverty. The poverty-specific part of “A Better Way” includes plans to increase portability of housing assistance so people can move to find jobs, raises money in collaboration with private companies for social programs, reform child nutrition programs in order to provide easy access to healthy meals and passing reforms that promote access to affordable retirement advice.