Showing posts with label welfare spending. Show all posts
Showing posts with label welfare spending. Show all posts

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.