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January 2014 Blog Posts (81)

Escaping the Rat Maze of the Welfare State

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," and as the joke goes, "Poverty won." Five decades after a blizzard of programs began descending on the American people, the poverty rate remains essentially unchanged.

That's a little unfair. What counts as poverty today would not have seemed so impoverished 50 years ago, when many of the poor lived without electricity and were no strangers to hunger. Today, the biggest health problems of the poor are more…

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Added by Fay Dickson-- AKA doofs on January 11, 2014 at 10:31am — 2 Comments

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