Who Is 'At Fault' For Poverty? Big Government Programs Are Declining

"Despite decades of economic growth and technological progress, tens of millions of Americans still live in poverty. Efforts to reduce the ranks of the poor persist, but they have moved underground. Today's War on Poverty isn't marked by lofty presidential rhetoric. It is a guerrilla war with platoons of idealistic crusaders and skeptical scholars, with dozens of small-scale experiments and local initiatives that largely escape public notice."

"Yet to a surprising degree, an intense subterranean debate over what causes poverty and what to do about it continues, and it has echoes of a debate that has hardly changed for a century."

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