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So... in short... the war on poverty has failed because more people are getting divorced and some people are poor. Oh... okay well... that's an odd way to define why it has failed. I mean, it's almost as if the article makes an obvious attempt to ignore that....
- American kids don't have to work in order to eat,
- American kids don't have to pitch in to pay the family's rent
- Hunger and housing have been completely disassociated with poverty
- Minorities have substantially higher education rates
- Access to education for all is an application away
- Access to healthcare is not based on ability to pay
- Real poverty levels for blacks have dropped from 87% to 20-25%
I don't think you can use the existence of welfare to combat the reality that people are poor. Yes, people in first world nations can lean on the rest of society to pay their bills, house them, educate their children, and in some places even pay for their daycare, but those people that rely on these programs are STILL poor.