WASHINGTON _ Jim Clyburn has the "10-20-30" plan. Tim Scott has "Opportunity Zones."
For years, these two South Carolina members of Congress _ Clyburn a House Democrat, Scott a Senate Republican, both African American _ have promoted their own anti-poverty proposals in parallel lanes, talking past each other rather than working together.
Clyburn, the U.S. House Majority Whip, has even publicly expressed deep skepticism about the integrity of Scott's approach to helping the nation's poor, suggesting it picks "winners and losers."
