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Actually, welfare benefits are much lower than they were under Johnson's Great Society programs. They declared a War on Poverty back in the 60s, and it did abou
by omegaham 13y ago
Actually, welfare benefits are much lower than they were under Johnson's Great Society programs. They declared a War on Poverty back in the 60s, and it did about as well as the current War on Drugs. We've actually been cutting welfare benefits for some time, culminating in the reforms done under the Clinton administration.
- DanI-S 13y agoNot all of the original article's statistics were based in the US, though. Few European countries were cutting welfare until 2008.
- vacri 13y agoAre those lower benefits spread across a wider demographic, or has the demographic been reduced as well? Just wondering about "10% of the population on $$" versus "40% on $"...