CSPAN President Obama Remarks On Poverty At Georgetown University September 7, 2015
About these issues. I think it is a mistake for us to suggest that somehow every effort we make has failed and we are powerless to address poverty. Thats just not true. First of all, just in absolute terms, the poverty rate when you take into account tax and transfer programs, has been reduced about 40 since 1967. Now, that does not lessen our concern about communities where poverty remains chronic. It does suggest, though, that we have been able to lessen poverty when we decide we want to do something about it. In every lowincome Community Around the country, there are programs that work to p...