U.S. Spends Nearly $1T Per Year To Fight Poverty

Did you know that the U.S. spends nearly a trillion dollars every single year on anti-poverty programs? And yet somehow 47 million remain in poverty…
 
$668 billion spent by 126 federal anti-poverty programs.
$284 billion spent by state welfare programs.
$952 BILLION TOTAL SPENT PER YEARThat’s $86,000 per family of four in poverty.