By the 1990s, an increasing number of Americans placed the blame for the existence of poverty, on the government welfare programs as well as on the poor themselves.
During the 1990s, when America faced a recession, the poverty rate of the country fell to 11.3 percent in 2000 from 15.1 percent in the year 1993. As a matter of fact, the percentage of concentrated poverty also decreased.
While some place the blame for poverty on the government welfare programs in the United States, others say that the same helped in the reduction of the poverty levels, making people, self-reliant and giving proper incentives to births happening out of wedlock, as well as to female led households.
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