Ivn.us 7/16/2014
“… According to one comprehensive study, the national poverty rate was approximately 27 percent in 1967: without decades of welfare programs, that rate would have risen to 29 percent by 2011 rather than dropped, as it did, to 16 percent. Yet despite this overall improvement, significant changes in these welfare programs — in combination with economic deterioration over the last decade — have left three groups especially vulnerable. America’s welfare system is failing the poor, single individuals without children, and the unemployed. …”
Read the entire article: http://ivn.us/2014/07/16/americas-welfare-system-failing-need/
