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A Culture of Dependency

A Culture of Dependency

In most wars a victor is declared. Yet, there is one war that has raged for more than half a century and there is no winner: the war on poverty.

It started under the Lyndon Johnson administration with the best intentions. Now 50 years and $20 trillion later, poverty in this nation has actually grown worse.

How can the richest nation on earth have 50 million people living in poverty? The answer is that we have substituted a path to employment for ...

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