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We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

Charles A. Murray
Poverty, Poor, Traps
Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.9, Basic Books
We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.