States With Large Black Populations Are Stingier With Government Benefits [TheAtlantic.com]

When he launched his War on Poverty in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson visited Tom Fletcher, an unemployed white Appalachian coal miner who lived in Kentucky. The White House had chosen Fletcher, who had eight children, to become the face of American poverty, and an iconic Timemagazine photo captured the president squatting next to Fletcher and three of his boys on the porch.

[For more of this story, written by Alana Semuels, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...-net-welfare/529203/]