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Talk:War on Poverty
$27.8 trillion
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The cost of the War on Poverty has been enormous.
Between 1965 and 2016,
welfare spending by federal and state governments
cost taxpayers roughly $27.8 trillion in constant FY 2016 dollars.
By contrast, the cost to the U.S. government for all military wars
from the American Revolution to the present is $8 trillion in FY 2016 dollars.
On March 3, 2014, as Chairman of the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives,
Paul Ryan released his "The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later" report,
asserting that some of 92 federal programs designed to help lower-income Americans
have not provided the relief intended
and that there is little evidence that these efforts have been successful.
The true cost of welfare or aid to the poor is largely unknown
because the spending is fragmented into myriad programs.
