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Re:Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay by harryh on Sunday January 12, 2020 @03:39PM (#22029145)
LBJ and the Great Society won the war on poverty in America.

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1205596833692565504

"The economists find that by the standards of LBJ's time, the U.S. poverty rate has dropped from 19.5 % in 1963 to just 2.3% in 2017!!"

If that's not winning, I don't know what is.

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Re:Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay by sokoloff on Sunday January 12, 2020 @04:10PM (#22029373)
That's the beauty (to some) and problem (to others) with the definition of poverty: we keep moving the goalposts/standards.
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