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Why the war on poverty in the US isn't over, in 4 charts

  • Written by Robert L. Fischer, Co-Director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, Case Western Reserve University
About 12.7 percent of Americans lived below the poverty line in 2016.StanislauV/shutterstock.com

On July 12, President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers concluded that America’s long-running war on poverty “is largely over and a success.”

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