hint...it ain’t about “poverty” ...its about the “poverty industry” .....which is about as useful and productive as the “green energy” industry...and the “global warming scam industry”
The flim-flam “war on poverty” was one of the first and most successful of the scam industries. It inspired a lot of wanna-be knockoffs leading to a Federal gov’mt that is increasingly less Federal and governed.
After Katrina residents of the area were given $2,000 gubment money cards. One guy came back to an area shelter with a flat screen TV (about the full two grand back then). “Whete you gonna put that??”
The poor you will have with you always.