As income transfer programs accompanying the War on Poverty increased beginning in the latter half of the 1960s, what happened to poverty in the United States? Check all that apply. O The adjusted poverty rate has declined rapidly and is now less than half of the official poverty rate. O The poverty rate declined substantially in the period before the War on Poverty, but not in the period after the start of the War on Poverty. In 2018, the adjusted poverty rate was only 4 percentage points lower than the official rate in 1970. O The War on Poverty has been largely ineffective in reducing the rate of poverty in the United States.

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