The problem is not lack of attention, and it’s not mainly lack of money. Since 1980 federal antipoverty spending has exploded. As Robert Samuelson of The Washington Post has pointed out, in 2013 the federal government spent nearly $14,000 per poor person. If you simply took that money and handed it to the poor, a family of four would have a household income roughly twice the poverty rate.
Yet over the last 30 years the poverty rate has scarcely changed.
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Well, there goes NJ's solution of MORE MONEY, because money, of course, buys happiness.
Yet over the last 30 years the poverty rate has scarcely changed.
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Well, there goes NJ's solution of MORE MONEY, because money, of course, buys happiness.
