Are We Helping Poor Americans?

Our objective is to help more Americans escape poverty by promoting work, marriage, civil society, and welfare-spending restraints

Jennifer Marshall, --December 31, 2012

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At the end of the year, many people take time to make charitable donations. But caring for those in need is a year-round responsibility—and when it comes to public policy, conservatives have an important opportunity to articulate an effective response to poverty and social breakdown in America.
A half-century into the War on Poverty, liberals can hardly declare victory. But they can claim the dominant anti-poverty narrative: Fight poverty by spending more, by starting another federal program. Americans seldom look to conservatives for policy answers to the problems of poverty. More...

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