 you could argue that in real terms the poor got worse off (during the 90s and then esp after the GFC) so we upped the transfers + perhaps the respectability/living standard demands increased so we again upped the transfers.

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Are Transfers Replacing Work for America’s Poor?

0xbitcoiner

This is an astonishing graph

![](https://m.stacker.news/130903)

I _guess_ you could argue that in real terms the poor got worse off (during the 90s and then esp after the GFC) so we upped the transfers + perhaps the respectability/living standard demands increased so we again upped the transfers. 

Still. Quite a lot about this is _no bueno_.