Repeating 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

Repeating 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.