NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
First of all considering population increases, even a 41% to 27% decrease may not mean the overall # of poor has decreased at all.
Oh. My. God. The stupidity of this statement should simply stand for itself.
Ok, I did the math.
in 1960 there were 18.8 million black people in the US. If you assume a 41% poverty rate, you get 7.7 million poor blacks. In 2012 there are 44 million black people in the US, and a poverty rate of 27% gives 12 million poor black people.
So for all the money we have spent, the problem has gotten worse on a PEOPLE level, actual poor people, not percentages.
We spend money to help the poor be less poor, or not poor. That has nothing to do with an economy that by its nature keeps creating more of the poor.