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American Povery Rate Halved After WWII

Benjamin Espen

Sep 26, 2011
  • Stats
  • Economics
That’s what happened from 1949 to 1961. We didn’t know it at the time, but the numbers have been calculated retrospectively, using the 1950 census to determine the poverty rate in 1949—it was 41 percent. In President Kennedy’s first year in office, 1961, it was 21 percent.

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