claim: "the poverty rates in america today aren’t much better than when we started the war on poverty."
author: paul ryan
evidence_1: jul 28, 2012 ... the lowest percentage in poverty since we started counting was 11.1 percent in  1973. ... poverty would be nearly double what it is now without these measures,  ... there aren't enough of these in our current economy. ... in the mid-90s more  than two-thirds of children in poor families received welfare.
evidence_2: mar 19, 2014 ... the war on poverty has made americans dependent and ... whether it was a  success or a failure, then you can be sure that it was a failure. ... after all,  everyone living today is here because 50,000+ generations of ... as a percent of  disposable income) has fallen by more than half since ... they aren't stupid.
evidence_3: jul 20, 2018 ... a white house council concluded that the war on poverty is "largely over. ... i am  a researcher who has studied poverty for nearly 20 years in cleveland, a city ...  headline, it simply does not align with the reality of poverty in the u.s. today. ...  the poverty rate is essentially the percentage of all people or a ...
evidence_4: the poverty rate started to climb. ... today, the percentage of poor americans is  the highest since 1965, the year after johnson declared his war on poverty. ...  the poor are women: more than 60% of all impoverished adults are women. .....  but the two aren't neighbors.
evidence_5: jan 7, 2014 ... fifteen percent of americans still live in poverty, according to the official ...  liberals argue that we aren't spending enough money on poverty-fighting  programs, but ... the federal government currently runs more than 80 means- tested ... the population is now less capable of self-sufficiency than when the war  ...