Martin, Megan C.; Caminada, Koen - In: Poverty & Public Policy 3 (2011) 1, pp. 8-8
<p>Several previous papers have marked the United States as an outlier: high poverty rates, low public social spending … strategies other “wealthy†nations use to address poverty. Initially U.S. welfare reform did serve to increase work … participation rates, although the earnings of most individuals who left welfare were still below the poverty line, even many years …