Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor

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Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor
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Applying for welfare in Texas? You've got the same odds as getting into MIT.

, finds the country’s indifference to the poor all the more galling in the context of its profligate spending on weaponry.

Maine, which blames its unspent TANF funds on its Legislature putting a 5-year lifetime limit on welfare eligibility, had enough left over to give $657 to every person in the state living in poverty. Hawaii had enough left to give $2,923 to everybody there in poverty.

Flint-hearted public policy has drastically reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.

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