women are on welfare.]
one measure, LBJ's War on Poverty was a success. If poverty is calculated counting income, transfer payments, and in-kind benefits (food programs, medical care, housing), the rates were 10.1 percent in 1968,6.2 percent in 1972, and 6.1 percent in 1980. But, says Murray, the goal of the War on Poverty was to help people escape "the dole."
In retrospect, he concludes, economic growth proved to be the only real antidote to poverty. "If the War on Poverty is construed...