Rasmussen: 43% Say Government Programs Increase Poverty in America

RASMUSSEN REPORTS, 9/20/2010 - Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the Political Class believe that government programs reduce poverty. But 56% of those in the Mainstream think government programs actually increase the amount of poverty in the United States. ∴ Thirty-three percent (33%) of all voters say the government anti-poverty programs are at least somewhat effective. Sixty-two percent (62%) disagree and say they’re not effective. This includes seven percent (7%) who believe the programs are Very Effective and 21% who say they are Not At All Effective. ∴ These results come as a new Census Bureau study estimates that 14.3% of Americans now fall below the federal poverty line. That’s the highest percentage since 1994 and the highest number of people living in poverty since the estimates first became available in 1959. Read more at Rasmussen's...