Immigration and Poverty Reduction: Policy Making on a Squirrel Wheel
Author(s)
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr.
Abstract
With the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which launched the War on Poverty in the US, prevention was adopted as the tactic. The causes of poverty were to be identified and then eliminated. However while the percentage of poverty population has reduced in the last 37 years, the absolute size of the population has not. One causative and perpetrating factor of mass poverty is the effects of the revival of mass immigration as manifested by immigration policies enacted by the federal government since 1965.
