Everything You Need to Know About the War on Poverty

On January 8th, 2014, Dylan Matthews wrote an article for the Washington Post. This article titled "Everything You Need to Know About the War on Poverty" gives us a brief summary on seven questions on the War on Poverty. What is the War on Poverty? The War on Poverty is a set of initiatives that were proposed by Lyndon B Johnson and passed by congress in 1964 that were supposed to end poverty in the United States. The War on Poverty included four pieces of legislation including The Social Security Amendments of 1965, The Food Stamp Act of 1964, The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, and The Elementary and Secondary Education Act. These pieces of legislation are resonsible for medicare, medicaid, social security benefits, food stamps, work-study programs and more. Many programs are still in place today. Recent studies show that government involvement has actually decreased poverty fro 26 percent to 16 percent. Matthews believes there is more that we can do to further decrease poverty. The URL to this article is below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/