The Patriot Post® · Losing the War on Poverty

Columnist John C. Goodman: “We have spent $15 trillion ‘fighting’ poverty since 1965 and we are currently spending $ trillion a year – an amount equal to about $22,000 per poor person or $88,000 for a family of four. Yet our poverty rate today (16%) is higher than when we started (14%)! If there has been a War on Poverty, poverty won. Is it not obvious that we are subsidizing and enabling a way of life? To put it bluntly, we are paying young women to have children out of wedlock. We are paying them to be unemployed. And we are paying them to remain poor.”