War on Poverty instructions

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Your dollar is not worth two cents

The War on Poverty, failed to end poverty and raised questions

about the federal government's ability to provide effective social services.

2024 will be the 60th anniversary of the War on Poverty.

President Lyndon Johnson's soaring rhetoric

(“For the first time in our history,

it is possible to conquer poverty”)

That is not what Jesus said.

Matthew 26. 11 For ye have the poor always with you;

Deuteronomy 15. 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land:

His prediction that the nation could “conquer poverty” turned out to be false.

For the last three years, the poverty rate has been at or above 15 percent.

Rather than look to government for the solution to poverty,

we should also focus attention on three factors that are directly linked to poverty

and are under the control of individual Americans –

education, family composition, and work.

it is difficult to escape poverty without a good education or a marketable skill.

the gap between children from poor and wealthier families has been growing for decades.

Changes in family composition are deeply implicated in the stubbornness of poverty.

Kids in single-parent families are about five times as likely to be poor

as children in married-couple families.

the share of children in single-parent families has been rising for decades.

poor and poorly educated adults are much more likely to have nonmarital births

than wealthier and better educated adults,

children reared in single-parent families are more likely to have education and behavioral problems

than children from married-couple families,

nonwork is the surest route to poverty.

The poverty rate among full time workers is 2.9 percent as compared with a

poverty rate of 16.6 percent among those working less than full time and about

24 percent for those who do not work.

the percentage of adult males working has been declining for decades.

The work rate among young black males is below 50 percent.

To mount an effective war against poverty,

we need changes in the personal decisions of more young Americans.

Unless young people get more education, work more, and stop having babies outside marriage,

government spending will be minimally effective in fighting poverty.

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