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How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting PovertyAnd FailBetween 1964 and now, the federal government spent roughly $12 trillion fighting poverty, and state and local governments added another $3 trillion. Yet the poverty rate has never fallen below 10.5 percent and is now at the highest level in nearly a decade. Clearly, we have been doing something wrong. In a new study, Cato scholar Michael D. Tanner argues that we should "shift our anti-poverty efforts from government programs that simply provide money or goods and services to those who are living in poverty to efforts to create the conditions and incentives that will make it easier for people to escape poverty."
"The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting PovertyAnd Fail," by Michael D. Tanner
"The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting PovertyAnd Fail," by Michael D. Tanner