The White House Says America Has Defeated Poverty. That’s Absurd.
“Last week, the Trump administration declared that poverty was no longer a serious problem in the United States. ‘Based on historical standards of material wellbeing and the terms of engagement, our War on Poverty is largely over and a success,’ the White House Council of Economic Advisers explained in a lengthy report published Thursday. The problem, its authors argued, was that too many Americans had become dependent on government benefits like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps), which need new work requirements to keep people off the dole.”