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The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?
Both liberals and conservatives tend to resist the idea that poverty has fallen dramatically since 1964, although for different reasons. Conservatives’ resistance is easy to understand. They have argued since the 1960s that the federal government’s antipoverty programs were ineffective, counterproductive, or both... By Christopher Jencks
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The "war on poverty" managed to create generations of fatherless families dependent on the dole.