01.28.2011 Policy Points

Reducing American Poverty

A brief from the Economic Policy Institute compared the share of the Americans living in poverty in 2009 to what the share would be if the benefits provided by various programs were included. As the graph below shows, Social Security is the nation’s most important anti-poverty program.

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