America’s Biggest Issues: Welfare

( iframe width=” 580″ height= “385” src=” https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZzjXpYE2R9M?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1″ frameborder=” 0″ allowfullscreen) When President Lyndon Johnson introduced his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate hardship in America. More than five years, numerous welfare programs, and $25 trillion later on, the well-being system has actually largely stopped working the poor.

The Heritage Foundation’s Genevieve Wood explains that the United States presently spends about a trillion dollars a year on over 90 different federal, state, and regional welfare programs. Yet around 12 percent of Americans are still considered poor.

We are clearly spending a lot of money so why do we still have such a high poverty rate?

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