Richard Burkhauser, Professor Emeritus of Policy Analysis at Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the poverty rate in the United States, looking at a full-income poverty measure, and raising the question of whether President Lyndon Johnson’s original War on Poverty has been a success.
Burkhauser is co-author on two recent papers, “Evaluating the success of President Johnson’s War on Poverty” and “Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama.”
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Burkhauser-Corinth-Elwell-Larrimore-President-Johnson-War-on-Poverty-WP-1.pdf
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26439.pdf
