Poverty in America

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This paper considers the liberal and conservative perspectives for reducing poverty in America. The author points out that a large proportion of the poor are "working poor". The paper suggests that higher wage rates would be the most effective means to address poverty.

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"Four decades after President Lyndon Johnson called for a War on Poverty, poverty remains a major social issue in the United States. Taken as a whole, the United States is one of the world's wealthiest large countries and undoubtedly even many Americans whom we would regard as poor live better than hundreds of millions of people in the world's poor nations. However, the U.S .has a poverty rate that is strikingly high by the standards of ..."

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