In 1964, Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson launched America’s ambitious “War on Poverty.”

More than six decades later, two economists — Kevin Corinth from the Heritage Foundation and Richard Burkhauser from Cornell University — have published a study suggesting that the war may have helped create a permanent underclass.

According to journalist Kevin Stocklin’s article in The Daily Signal (March 13, 2026), the massive expansion of welfare programs has largely replaced market incomes for many Americans, trapping generations in dependency on government transfers rather than work.

This isn’t just an American story. The same pattern is visible across much of the Western world.

The study doesn’t claim the original intentions were evil. But the results speak for themselves.

As the old proverb goes:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

We’ve spent trillions on fish.
Maybe it’s time to teach people how to fish again.

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