An article in today's WSJ got me to subscribe! - "The Destructive Legacy of the Great Society" by Jason Riley
http://www.wsj.com/articles/en....titlements-welfare-p
For those who can't get past the WSJ firewall, a few data points:
"Between 1940 and 1960 the % of black families living in poverty declined by 40% as blacks increased their years of education and migrated from poorer rural areas to more prosperous urban environs... No welfare program has come close to replicating that rate of black advancement..."
"Antisocial behavior is closely associated with family breakdown... black male homicides FELL in the 1940s by 18% and in the 1950s by 22%... this trend would reverse itself in the 1960s and continue to worsen for decades.."
"Crime, single parenting and drug abuse also increased among poor whites in the aftermath of the Great Society. When the gov't indulges and subsidizes counterproductive behavior, we tend to get more of it."
