Friday, September 13, 2013

Welfare Spending Continues To Soar Despite Attempts at Reform...


Total means-tested welfare spending (cash, food, housing, medical care, and social services to the poor) has increased more than 17-fold since the beginning of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in 1964.
INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS (2011)
Total Welfare Spending Is Rising Despite Attempts at Reform
Source: Heritage Foundation calculations based on data from current and previous White House Office of Management and Budget documents and other official government sources.

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