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LBJ and the Great Society won the war on poverty in America. https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1205596833692565504 https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/12
by harryh 7y ago
LBJ and the Great Society won the war on poverty in America.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1205596833692565504 https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1205596833692565504
"The economists find that by the standards of LBJ's time, the U.S. poverty rate has dropped from 19.5 % in 1963 to just 2.3% in 2017!!"
If that's not winning, I don't know what is.
- sokoloff 7y agoThat's the beauty (to some) and problem (to others) with the definition of poverty: we keep moving the goalposts/standards.