Expanding the Failed War on Poverty: Obama’s 2011 Budget Increases Welfare Spending to Historic Levels
March 21, 2010 4
Katherine Bradley
Former Research Fellow, Domestic Policy Studies
The Heritage FoundationThe Obama Administration announced that it is creating a new poverty measure to be unveiled in the fall of 2011 that would redefine who is considered “poor” in America. This new measure will dramatically increase the number of people considered to be living in poverty in the U.S.
New York City recently adopted a similar poverty measure to the one being developed by the Obama Administration. Under the current federal measure of poverty, the city’s poverty rate fell from 19.1 percent in 2005 to 17.76 percent in 2008. However, under the new poverty measure the 2008 rate rose to 22 percent. The translation of these numbers into federal dollars for benefits would be significant and very costly.
https://www.heritage.org/welfare/report/expanding-the-failed-war-poverty-obamas-2011-budget-increases-welfare-spendingTook me a little time to locate this old report.
This illustrates how the massive increase in spending on welfare programs got to be what they are today. Basically land mines for later administrations.
