Study: U.S. poverty rate decreased over past half-century thanks to safety-net programs, By Zachary A. Goldfarb, December 9, 2013, Washington Post: “Government programs such as food stamps and unemployment insurance have made significant progress in easing the plight of the poor in the half-century since the launch of the war on poverty, according to a major new study. But the nation’s economy has made far less progress lifting people out of poverty without the need for government services…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty