50 Years of the "War on Poverty"

brewmama said:

As I already posted before, with another graph,

"The increase in the birth rate was most rapid during the late 1970’s through
the 1980’s, when the rate increased about 4 percent per year."

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The long-term trend in birth rates for unmarried women has been
cyclical for most age groups, except the rates for teenagers (figure 2,
table 3). Rates for unmarried teenagers rose essentially without interruption,
increasing from 7 per 1,000 aged 15–19 years in 1940 to 46
in 1994, before declining 11 percent through 1998. Rates for other age
groups generally rose during the 1940’s, 1950’s, and early 1960’s,
declined sharply during the late 1960’s and 1970’s and then increased
steeply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s before stabilizing after 1994

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ChristsSoldier115 said:

First, it is more than that.

Second, it isn't the governments job to legislate family values. I don't think I want to give the government that sort of power, do you?

Thirdly, perhaps the lack of traditional american family values is the fault of the church? How does a country that has almost 80% professing Christian population, follow absolutely no Christian values?

I am talking about the home. The family unit. not government policies, in point 3.

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Veritas said:

SNIP

And yet Obama blames the riots in Baltimore in part on poverty.

Obama urges demonstrators to focus on poverty, injustice - NY Daily News

President Obama warned Tuesday that the looters and arsonists in Baltimore — “a handful of criminals and thugs” — had diverted attention from the “slow-rolling crisis” of urban poverty, injustice and inequality in America.

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HonestTruth said:

Republican war on the poor

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