The War On Poverty

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gilbert-b-kaplan/the-war-on-poverty-international-trade_b_4654229.html

     In the article "The war on Poverty, International Trade, and The State Of The Union" the author Gilbert B. Kaplan talks about the limited success of the war on poverty declared 50 years ago by Lyndon B. Johnson. Kaplan talks about how International Trade has affected job loss in America using sources from groups such as the economic policy institute. He states that "The Economic Policy Institute -- calculated the jobs lost because of the China trade deficit at 2.7 million " because of this job loss Kaplan explains that it is growing harder and harder for the poor to get jobs to actually get out of poverty. Kaplan also states that "The traditional road up from poverty into the middle class -- a good long-term job in a factory -- has now been blocked. Those jobs do exist, but because of our trade policy they are not in the United States; they are in China, Vietnam and other low wage, long-hour sites." Based on these details we are currently losing the war on poverty.