eflatminor
Classical Liberal
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Poverty fell by huge margins after the war on poverty, and even now ,during the greatest recession we've had since the depression, it's still lower than it was before the war on poverty.
Spending on the war on poverty really took off in the late sixties. Whatever was spent in the early 60s was tiny... minuscule...compared to meteoric rise in spending over the last 40 years.
The government now has a new method by which they measure poverty in America. According to this new measure, 13.7 percent of Americans were poor in 1969. After spending trillions, the national poverty rate has climbed to 15.8 percent, according to the new Census Bureau measure. The previous measurements also showed 2 point increase.
Golden State turns to lead, now leads poverty rankings | The Daily Caller
You can play with dates and maybe find a time period in which the poverty rate was the same or even a slight decrease (1965 until 2007 is one such time period because the economy was good in 2007...duh), but that's disingenuous at best. Given the trillions spent and the drag on the economy for the taxes required to do so, the so called war on poverty have been a massive failure no matter how you look at it.
The poor are better off without your "help". For the money we've spent, there should have been a huge drop in the poverty rate. That just isn't the case. The meddling made things worse.