Federal Spending on Poverty

In a book called The Dependency Agenda (Encounter Broadsides), Kevin Williamson describes what happens to all federal spending on poverty. If you take all of the money that the federal government spends on poverty programs and divide that amount by the number of poor families in America, you get average spending of $65,000 per poor family.  The national income average is only $50,000!   So where is all this spending on poverty programs going? It turns out that it is going to folks who have vested interest in "caring about poverty" but never really doing anything to solve the problem.

James Delong discusses this in a recent article.
See also the blog Universal Christian.