Why the war on poverty in the US isn’t over, in 4 charts
“ On July 12, President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers concluded that America’s long-running war on poverty ‘is largely over and a success.’ I am a researcher who has studied poverty for nearly 20 years in Cleveland, a city with one of the country’s highest rates of poverty. While the council’s conclusion makes for a dramatic headline, it simply does not align with the reality of poverty in the U.S. today.”