Liberating the Poor from Poverty April 17, 2014 Despite a War on Poverty that began in 1965, the poverty rate today is nearly the same as what it was when the war on poverty began. Basically, we fought the War on Poverty, and poverty won. Why, asks Peter Ferrara, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis. One reason is because lower income populations stopped working: While almost two-thirds of households in the bottom income quintile were headed by working persons in 1960, only one-third of households in the bottom quintile were working in 1991, and only 11 percent were working full time, year round. Only 2.7 percent of Americans working full time and year round are in poverty. ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24323&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD https://facebook/FliptheSenate2014
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:36:08 +0000
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