An expert on welfare reform says the war on poverty has been a
debacle and has achieved the exact opposite of what President
Lyndon Johnson wanted.
Robert Rector, senior research fellow at
The Heritage
Foundation's DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, says
self-sufficiency was LBJ's primary goal in launching the war on
poverty.
"Lyndon Johnson did not want to increase the number of people
dependent on government aid," Rector points out. "He said rather,
'I don't want to just reduce the symptom of poverty. I want to
eliminate the cause of poverty.'
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