In the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal responsibility. “The critical edge of 1963 was blunted in the legislation of 1964, as ...

Modern societies redistribute income in countless ways. Some policies address poverty, but others redistribute income to the middle class and from richer to poorer across the income distribution.

The release of a supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau is being touted in the media as indicating the government is not doing enough to ameliorate poverty in the country. The number of ...