- One of the lesser-known realities of the War on Poverty was that while poverty rates were falling substantially before it began, that progress came to an abrupt halt, fantastically, with its implementation.
- Without understanding this, people can remain blind to the lesson about how “fighting” poverty can undermine progress against it.
- And that may be particularly important to grasp now as, decades later, similar effects seem to be spreading to a far-larger population.
Before we turn to its current implications, we would benefit from reviewing explanations for how the War on Poverty failed.
To my mind, the most insightful explanation comes from James Gwartney and Thomas McCaleb, in Have Antipoverty Programs Increased Poverty?
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