Poverty and Inequality

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Today, the U.S. spends 16 times as much on welfare as it spent in the 1960s yet the federal poverty rate remains nearly unchanged.

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REPORT

The War on Poverty has cost the taxpayers nearly three and a half times the combined cost of all military wars in U.S. history.

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