Poverty Rates Reveal Inconvenient Truth About Progressive Policies, by Anne Hendershott

In 2019—just two years after the implementation of President Donald Trump’s promising anti-poverty programs—the Census Bureau reported that the poverty rate for the United States declined to 10.5 percent, the lowest since estimates were first released for 1959. More importantly, census data revealed that Blacks and Hispanics reached “historic lows” in their poverty rates in 2019. With the lowest recorded rates of poverty since the 1950s for Blacks, President Trump’s policies were actually working to reduce poverty for this vulnerable poverty-prone demographic.

Unfortunately, all of these gains were lost within the first year of the Biden administration’s misguided attempt to redistribute the wealth. …

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