1. Who Is Responsible for Poverty? Is the War on Poverty Successful?
Gina Dabruzzi
4/23/2015

2. Who Is Responsible?

3. Who’s Responsible? Individuals Government/Policies
Partly a side effect of Capitalism
“An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled my private owners for profit, rather than by the state”
Built on supply&demand – increase profits, lower costs
Connects to the distribution of wealth graph

4. Distribution of Wealth

5. So is the War on Povery Successful?

6. Johnson’s “War on Poverty”
"Our aim is not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.”
Social Security Amendments of 1965
Created Medicare and Medicaid
Expanded Social Security benefits
Food Stamp Act of 1964
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
Established Job Corps, Vista Program, Federal Work-Study Program
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Established Title I program-subsidizes school districts with a large share of impoverished students  No Child Left Behind Act

7. What is being done today?
Obamacare

8. What do these programs do?
Assist people in difficult financial situations
Increase Mobility  More Opportunities
Those in low pay jobs who fear taking the risk to apply for higher paid jobs because they do not want to lose health insurance

9. What else could/should be done?
Raise minimum wage
Offer a more sustainable living
Companies and Government work together
Attract more business in the U.S.
Decrease number of businesses based out in places such as China
Bring more job opportunities to U.S. citizens

10. The End