"Decades later we have more poor in our society than ever before."
Actually the data suggests that the poverty rate has dropped considerably since the War on Poverty program and stayed that way, see 
https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-united-states

If we have more poor in our society since 1960 it is because we have more people than 1960, not because the poverty rate has again reached high levels experience since 1960.

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