again you are free to post something that refutes the numbers.
Would a number convince you? would you change your mind? Let me answer, NO. No, because your view of these things is part and parcel of your makeup, your worldview. I have seen some of the statistics from the information below and they are impressive. When people get up a rung on the ladder, the next step is just a bit easier for them and hopefully their children.
"While poverty has been steadily declining since the last economic recession in the early 1990s, it is still higher than the 1970s, when dramatic reductions in poverty were achieved in the aftermath of the War on Poverty during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations."
Poverty