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>By all indications, the War on Poverty has failed, given the poverty rate was declining far faster before its institution than during the 50 years since it beg
by beat 8y ago
>By all indications, the War on Poverty has failed, given the poverty rate was declining far faster before its institution than during the 50 years since it began.
You might want to actually check your statistics before making proclamations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Number_in_Poverty_and_Poverty_Rate_1959_to_2011._United_States..PNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#/...
The poverty rate dropped 50% from 1959 to the early 1970s, from almost 25% to around 12-13%, coinciding with the introduction of the modern welfare programs. It's held steady there ever since.
- CryptoPunk 8y agoRepeating a comment I made before: Poverty rates have failed to decline during almost the entire era of rapidly increasing social spending. There is less than a decade of poverty rate reduction during the War on Poverty era, and it is all at the beginning, when the economy and populace had still not become accustomed to large social welfare programs, and when the size of these programs was much smaller than it is now. If social programs reduced poverty these aren't the stats you'd see.