Reply #9: It doesn't seem to be helping the percent of people in poverty. [View All]

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There was a steady decline in the percent of people below the "official" poverty level from 1993 until....(you guessed it).... the year 2000. That magical year which brought us a repuke congress and executive branch also brought us an increase in poverty for the first time in seven years. If the program was successful, it would have shown a continuing decline in the percent of people in the US below the poverty level. It didn't. We are still increasing the number of poor in this country. The percent of people below the poverty level hasn't been this bad since 1998. Yet they have the nerve to congratulate themselves on a poverty program that is increasing the number of poor? There were fewer total number of people below the poverty level in 1996 (when the new welfare program was implemented) than there are today. What a successful program, just don't let them "fix" anything else.

Up is down, war is peace, and poor is rich.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov2.html