Commentary: Poverty programs worked, so let's get rid of them?

For many decades now the GOP has sought to undo the New Deal and the Great Society. But a report released last month from the White House's Council of Economic Advisors, lost in a sea of grabbier news items, applies a new logic to the goal of shredding the safety net.

According to "expanding work requirements in non-cash welfare programs," comprehensive antipoverty programs are no longer necessary because 50 years of antipoverty programs - yes, those same interventions long hated, and their effectiveness belittled, by the GOP - have