Tag: war on poverty
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War on poverty? Why presidential campaigns don’t talk about the poor.
Christian Science Monitor: War on poverty? Why presidential campaigns don't talk about the poor. Neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney has made poverty a big part of his campaign. It's no wonder. Poverty has become something of a toxic issue for many American voters. A presidential campaign, it would seem, is not the best time…
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Winning the War on Poverty?
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…