![]() ![]() The main evidence cited by War on Poverty defeatists such as Reagan and Ryan is that poverty rates have not declined very much according to the “official poverty rate.” However, it’s impossible to understand what we can achieve together in the future without understanding what we have already achieved together in the past. As Americans, we look upon our shared history of progressive government investment as if confronting a fun-house mirror image warped in all directions. The track record of progressive investments in the United States has, after all, been refracted through decades of bad data, bad statistics, bad analysis, and propaganda. ![]() ![]() But no one can blame you for believing otherwise. Hilger’s book “ The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis“Īmazingly, this assertion that the War on Poverty “failed” is pure fiction, a myth that won’t die. ![]()
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