Poverty . Thats our show tonight. And now, john stossel. In this rich country lots of people are poor. So what should we do about that . Spread the wealth, thats the democrats plan. Some americans are plenty rich. We can just tax more and spend the money on the poor. Fifty years ago president johnson said america will end poverty by doing that. This Administration Today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. [applauding] he expanded Social Security to include more people. Expanded the food stamp program. Created the job core and more. And look how its reduced poverty. In the first sten years of the war on poverty, the poverty rate dropped from 17 percent to 12 percent. Thats great success. But wait a second. Look at the years right before the war on poverty began. Americans were already lifting themselves out of poverty without the welfare programs. And now, look at this graph that shows whats happened since the war began, after five, ten years of improvement, a
Thats our show tonight. And now, john stossel. In this rich country lots of people are poor. So what should we do about that . Spread the wealth, thats the democrats plan. Some americans are plenty rich. We can just tax more and spend the money on the poor. Fifty years ago president johnson said america will end poverty by doing that. This Administration Today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. [applauding] he expanded Social Security to include more people. Expanded the food stamp program. Created the job core and more. And look how its reduced poverty. In the first sten years of the war on poverty, the poverty rate dropped from 17 percent to 12 percent. Thats great success. But wait a second. Look at the years right before the war on poverty began. Americans were already lifting themselves out of poverty without the welfare programs. And now, look at this graph that shows whats happened since the war began, after five, ten years of improvement, americans s
Poverty . Thats our show tonight. And now, john stossel. In this rich country lots of people are poor. So what should we do about that . Spread the wealth, thats the democrats plan. Some americans are plenty rich. We can just tax more and spend the money on the poor. Fifty years ago president johnson said america will end poverty by doing that. This Administration Today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. [applauding] he expanded Social Security to include more people. Expanded the food stamp program. Created the job core and more. And look how its reduced poverty. In the first sten years of the war on poverty, the poverty rate dropped from 17 percent to 12 percent. Thats great success. But wait a second. Look at the years right before the war on poverty began. Americans were already lifting themselves out of poverty without the welfare programs. And now, look at this graph that shows whats happened since the war began, after five, ten years of improvement, a
And now, john stossel. In this rich country lots of people are poor. So what should we do about that . Spread the wealth, thats the democrats plan. Some americans are plenty rich. We can just tax more and spend the money on the poor. Fifty years ago president johnson said america will end poverty by doing that. This Administration Today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. [applauding] he expanded Social Security to include more people. Expanded the food stamp program. Created the job core and more. And look how its reduced poverty. In the first sten years of the war on poverty, the poverty rate dropped from 17 percent to 12 percent. Thats great success. But wait a second. Look at the years right before the war on poverty began. Americans were already lifting themselves out of poverty without the welfare programs. And now, look at this graph that shows whats happened since the war began, after five, ten years of improvement, americans stopped making progress.
What should america do about poverty . Thats our show tonight. In this rich country, lots of people are poor so what should we do about that . Spread the wealth. Thats the democrats plan. Some americans are plenty rich, we could just tax them more and spend the money on the poor. 50 years ago president johnson said america will end poverty by doing that. This Administration Today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. He expanded Social Security to include more people. Expanded the food stamp program, created job training programs, the job corps, vista head start and more. And look how its reduced poverty. In the first 10 years of the war on poverty, the poverty rate dropped from 17 to 12 . Thats great success. But wait a second. Look at years right before the war on poverty began. Americans were already lifting themselves out of poverty without the welfare programs. And now look at this graph that shows whats happened since the war began, after five, ten years