The War on Poverty worked. Contrary to President Reagan’s joke about it, it wasn’t poverty that won.

What we called poverty back in 1963 when we started on the adventure pretty much doesn’t exist in the United States today. So, yes, we got rid of it, abolished it. We won, not poverty.

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