Commentary
In a previous column, I lamented how the poverty rate in the United States has remained range-bound between 11 and 15 percent ever since the War on Poverty was launched in the 1960s.
George, who is homeless, panhandles along a street in Lawrence on Aug. 16, 2019, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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