Indeed, the War on Poverty has actually been pretty successful. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities — which Ryan cited several times throughout his report — observed back in January that when you factor in the non-cash and tax code benefits that make up an increasingly large portion of the safety net, the poverty rate fell from 26 percent to 16 percent between 1967 and 2012. (CBPP blasted Ryans report as replete with misleading and selective presentations of data and research.) The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (known more commonly as the food stamp program), a fat target of previous Ryan budgets and singled out in Ryans poverty report as largely ineffective, is actually pretty good at pulling people out of poverty. Once again we turn to CBPP, which found that SNAP kept 4.9 million people — 2.2 million of them children — out of poverty in 2012.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:41:00 +0000
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