Rep. Paul Ryan has waded into the public debate over the growing inequality and poverty in American society with the recent release of a 250 page report titled “The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later.”

The report itself has received less attention than Ryan’s incendiary comments intended to draw attention to it. During a conversation with conservative radio host Bill Bennett, Ryan took a stab at explaining the persistence of urban poverty:

We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.