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Winning the War on Poverty?

Sep 14, 2012

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mwkruse

in Poverty, Trends: Economic, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Atlantic: Wait, We're Winning the War on Poverty? A New Study Says: Absolutely … But a new paper from Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan says it's missing everything. "We may not have won the war on poverty, but we are certainly winning," they write. When they looked at poorer families' consumption rather than…