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The War on Poverty Fact-Check: $22 Trillion and a Measure That Cannot See It
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Verdict: mostly-false. Truth score 0.25, confidence 0.85.
The $22 trillion is real. "Have we even reduced poverty? And the answer is no" is not — and the reason is which poverty measure you pick.
On The P.A.S. Report (14 September 2026), host Nicholas Giordano makes sixty years of Great Society spending the case study in an argument about sacrifice, and lands it with a statistic. We take the strong version first: Robert Rector at Heritage totalled roughly $22 trillion in constant 2012 dollars across 80-plus means-tested programs…
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