Poverty in Chicago higher in 2022 than before War on Poverty – Illinois Policy

In 1960, Chicago’s poverty rate was 12% when fewer than 110,000 Chicagoans were estimated to be living in poverty. Today, the poverty rate sits at 17.2% and more than 450,000 Chicagoans live below the poverty line. National poverty rates have consistently hovered between 11% and 15% for decades. No meaningful progress has been made.
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Poor Taxpayer
2 years ago

That is a good result when you consider the government is running the program.
Look at what they have done with the education system.

Giddyap
2 years ago

A lot of that blame belongs to Senile Biden — his Bidenomics — a plan deliberately designed to degrade US economic strength — has spiked poverty that had seen historic lows under Trump

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