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The Anti-Poverty Experiment
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petethomas
on June 6, 2015
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dylanjermiah
on June 6, 2015
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"In 1966, shortly after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty, 14.7% of Americans were poor, under the official definition of the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2013, 14.5% of Americans were poor."
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