Well if you look at poverty graph there was HUGE reduction in poverty up until massive social programs which lock people into them The Welfare trap, going back

Well if you look at poverty graph there was HUGE reduction in poverty up until massive social programs which lock people into them The Welfare trap, going back decades shows that it is almost impossible to get out of it because the way benefits roll off you end up losing $1.5 in government "assistance" for every $1 you make in wages, so people can not escapse Plans like the Negative income tax would be far far more humane and actually help reduce poverty