Trump declares success in War on Poverty
“White House Council of Economic Advisers report this week ‘declared the War on Poverty ‘largely over and a success,’ arguing that few Americans are truly poor — only about 3 percent of the population … The report is the latest in a string of Trump administration efforts to argue that poverty is a diminishing problem in the United States. … And the report marks a departure from decades of GOP rhetoric,’ per Stein and Jan.”