LBJ's War on Poverty failed all it accomplished was creating a larger dependency class.

Here is the abstract from the linked research paper:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34759/w34759.pdf

We compare trends in absolute poverty before (1939–1963) and after (1963–2023) the War on Poverty was declared. Our primary methodological contribution is to create a post-tax post-transfer income measure using the 1940, 1950 and 1960 Decennial Censuses through imputations of taxes and transfers as well as certain forms of market income including perquisites (Collins and Wanamaker 2022), consistent with the full income measures developed by Burkhauser et al. (2024) for subsequent years. From 1939–1963, poverty fell by 29 percentage points, with even larger declines for Black people and all children. While absolute poverty continued to fall following the War on Poverty’s declaration, the pace was no faster, even when evaluating the trends relative to a consistent initial poverty rate. Furthermore, the pre-1964 decline in poverty among working age adults and children was achieved almost completely through increases in market income, during which time only 2–3 percent of working age adults were dependent on the government for at least half of their income, compared to dependency rates of 7–15 percent from 1972–2023. In contrast to progress on absolute poverty, reductions in relative poverty were more modest from 1939–1963 and even less so since then.

Yah add to that, post 1963 policies of higher reliance on Gov. benefits. Adding mass low skill immigration with the 1965 Hart Celler Act (pushed by Ted Kennedy and backed across parties) imported additional poverty pressures, lowskill inflows raised both the number of poor and welfare use, counteracting anti poverty efforts by increasing the dependency class the paper documents.

Enter Obamaism's,growth in government programs, entitlements, and regulatory approaches seen as fostering dependency.Cultural and institutional changes as prioritizing progressive values over traditional ones, contributing to polarization.

Top that off with the historical open boarders mess that let in millions upon millions in.