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The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA

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Poverty is an old concept that is taking on a new lease and it remains an unsolved global problem. In an effort to solve the problem, the United Nations World Summit for Social Development has declared the eradication of poverty as the unfinished business of the 21st century. This paper discusses the efforts to eradicate poverty in America. Despite the fact that American government has spent trillions of dollars to solve the poverty problem in America, more than 46 million Americans live in poverty. The reasons for this paradox are explored and explicated in this paper. The paper concludes with suggestions to make the American war on poverty—efforts to eradicate poverty in America—more efficient, effective, and productive. Above all, as former President Ronald Reagan once said, America fought a war on poverty and poverty won. With that in mind, this paper challenges American government head-on to rethink and reconsider how it fights the war on poverty.

KEYWORDS

war on poverty, poverty, welfare, great society, New Deal

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Journal of US-China Public Administration, January 2016, Vol. 13, No. 1, 41-54

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