On the recordDecember 7, 2015
In 1965, we had--we started basically the War on Poverty in the United States, and unfortunately today the poverty rate is basically the same as it was when we signed the Great Society.
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Perdue highlights the stagnation of the poverty rate since the War on Poverty began.
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