The answer to that question is so that the left can continue to take from the producers in order to bribe identity groups for votes through wealth redistribution. It’s not because the money is truly needed for anything. Agencies are constantly coming up with ludicrous ways to use all of their budgeted funds in order to demand even more money next time with which to bribe identity groups. That’s why poverty is redefined and will never be considered to have been eradicated, that’s why the left is so anxious to bring in new groups of people who will suck off the public teat. The already present groups have reached the point to where “poverty” is defined as not having a cell phone and cable TV. The left is running out of ways to justify new expenditures in the name of “poverty”, so must import new impoverished groups. Also, they enact policies which reward people for poverty-inducing behaviors, such as single “motherhood”. They don’t wantto end poverty, they want to maintain their threadbare excuses for confiscation of wealth from workers in order to expand government and bribe identity groups.
