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The War on Poverty......
From the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget.
The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. Since that day....
“Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it. No single piece of legislation, however, is going to suffice.”
- President Lyndon Johnson, 1964 State of the Union Address
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Since then, Washington has created dozens of programs and spent trillions of dollars. But few people have stopped to ask, “Are they working?”
In “The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later,” the House Budget Committee majority staff starts to answer that question.
There are at least 92 federal programs designed to help lower-income Americans. For instance, there are dozens of education and job-training programs, 17 different food-aid programs, and over 20 housing programs. The federal government spent $799 billion on these programs in fiscal year 2012.
http://budget.house.gov/waronpoverty/
From Forbes: The War on Poverty Wasn't A Failure -- It Was A Catastrophe
Has the War on Poverty been a failure? Well, of course it has. If you devote 50 years and $21.5 trillion (in 4Q2013 dollars) to anything, and people are arguing about whether it was a success or a failure, then you can be sure that it was a failure.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswo...-a-failure-it-was-a-catastrophe/#2e1b15177b6c
From the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget.
The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. Since that day....
“Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it. No single piece of legislation, however, is going to suffice.”
- President Lyndon Johnson, 1964 State of the Union Address
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Since then, Washington has created dozens of programs and spent trillions of dollars. But few people have stopped to ask, “Are they working?”
In “The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later,” the House Budget Committee majority staff starts to answer that question.
There are at least 92 federal programs designed to help lower-income Americans. For instance, there are dozens of education and job-training programs, 17 different food-aid programs, and over 20 housing programs. The federal government spent $799 billion on these programs in fiscal year 2012.
http://budget.house.gov/waronpoverty/
From Forbes: The War on Poverty Wasn't A Failure -- It Was A Catastrophe
Has the War on Poverty been a failure? Well, of course it has. If you devote 50 years and $21.5 trillion (in 4Q2013 dollars) to anything, and people are arguing about whether it was a success or a failure, then you can be sure that it was a failure.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswo...-a-failure-it-was-a-catastrophe/#2e1b15177b6c
