@washingtonpost.com rely on Burkhauser & Corinth @nber.org showing poverty declines before the 1963 came from wage increases rather than non-wage support - also overlooking the role of unions in raising wages-particularly for Black workers who were previously shut out of most unions.
Will Jones
Fortune magazine, 1951: "The union has made the worker to an amazing degree a middle-class members of a middle-class society."
Washington Post, 2026: "Redistribution by the government was not the primary author of that story. Economic growth did most of the work."
Will Jones
OMG. The editors @washingtonpost.com really just argued that the War on Poverty did not work because poverty had already declined due to economic growth since 1939. Have they really never heard of the New Deal?
The enormous rise in living standards is among the greatest success stories in human history.
