In late 2015, a pair of researchers stumbled upon a remarkable finding: since the 1996 federal welfare reform law, the number of people who are living on less than $2 a day in America has doubled. They found that 1.5m American households, including three million children, are now living at or near this threshold, as guaranteed government aid that once existed in this country has all but disappeared. While they didn’t place all of the blame on reduced government aid, they pointed to the welfare reform law as one of the main drivers of increased extreme poverty in the […]
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