Tag: anti-poverty programs

Record number in government anti-poverty programs

Aug 30, 2010

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by

mwkruse

in Poverty, Public Policy, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

USA Today: Record number in government anti-poverty programs WASHINGTON — Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand. More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, the federal-state program aimed principally at the poor, a survey of…