Long-Term Federal Fiscal Problem Threatens Antipoverty Efforts in the United States

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Projected long-term federal budget deficits pose a threat to the availability of the resources needed to implement and sustain an antipoverty agenda for the new president and Congress. To help ensure that sufficient resources are available to sustain antipoverty measures, advocates of those measures need to understand the threat that these deficits pose, the reasons for the deficits, and steps that can be taken to deal with them without undermining vital federal programs

By James Horney From November-December 2008 Clearinghouse Review