I would like to come down and put some charts up in the well and speak so that the statistics will be very visible before the public as it relates to the poverty rates in the United States. First. let me just say. Mr. HOYER. our whip. talked about the 50th anniversary this year of President Johnsons War on Poverty. Now. this War on Poverty included such initiatives as Medicare. Medicaid. Head Start. the Higher Education Act. and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. There was a very important immigration billyou name itS0 years ago. This legislation. the War on Poverty. really has helped to reduce our poverty rates in the United States. Poverty has fallen from 26 percent in 1967 to 15 percent in 2015.
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