America's War on poverty Will it ever end? Four myths about the poor debunked.

America's war on poverty began when former President Johnson declared war on it. Late- Ex- President Johnson came from humble beginnings and had a first hand experience on poverty. Is the war on poverty an epic fail? No,  the war on poverty still helps struggling Americans. Many struggling Americans use the food stamps and Medicaid LBJ started. The war on poverty helps many impoverished citizens. I think we need to give the war on poverty another jump start so that it can help more than it is. The war on poverty needs to be revamped so we can end all poverty. But there are some myths about people on welfare They will now be debunked.
1. The poor are lazy.
The poor aren't lazy they may have suffered a job loss or they are working a minimum wage job that they can't support there family(because they lost a higher paying job.). A medical problem that kept them from working or hours or a pay cut at work.
2. The poor are on welfare for life.
The average time for someone to be on welfare is a year or two. Most people are not on welfare for their whole life welfare is a helping hand to those who come across hard times. Welfare is not an "entitlement". On a few amount of the poor are on welfare for life.
3. There are not that many poor Americans
15% of the American population is at or above the poverty level. And 40% of Americans are below the poverty line at some point in their life. 54% suffer a year st or around the poverty line.
4. The poor get a lot of money from welfare.
A family of four get about no more than about $1000 a month (not including food stamps) depending on income it is about $0- 800 in most states though.

For more information read these article
http://www.ehow.com/info_8590871_much-family-four-receive-welfare.html
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/08/politics/war-on-poverty-50-years/index.html?hpt=us_t4
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/poverty-in-america-is-mainstream/?_r=0