Check all of the following that are true.
A) the poverty rate was already declining prior to LBJ’s expansion of the welfare state, falling from 32.2 percent in 1950 to 17.3 percent in 1965, the first year the War on Poverty was implemented
B) the poverty rate was increasing prior to LBJ’s expansion of the welfare state, rising to 32.2 percent in 1965 from 17.3 percent in 1950, the first year the War on Poverty was implemented
C) Following the onset of the War on Poverty the poverty rate declined from roughly 19 percent to just over 11 percent in the late 1970s
D) the poverty rate rose and has since basically hovered around 14 percent ever since even though welfare spending has drastically increased over the same period