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Peter Cove\\xa0joins\\xa0Brian Anderson\\xa0to discuss his new book\\xa0Poor No More: Rethinking Dependency and the War on Poverty.

Declaring the\\xa0War on Poverty in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson stated\\xa0that the goal was\\xa0to \\u201ccure poverty, and above all, prevent it.\\u201d

50 years later, most people would agree that the signature campaign of the \\u201cGreat Society\\u201d has shown mixed results, at best: Despite spending over $20 trillion on anti-poverty programs, the official poverty rate has barely moved.

Peter\\xa0Cove is the founder of\\xa0America Works, the nation\\u2019s first for-profit, welfare-to-work company that has placed nearly\\xa01\\xa0million people into employment. Peter first became involved in the fight against poverty when\\xa0he\\xa0moved to New York in 1965 to join the Anti-Poverty Operations Board, where he helped write federal grant proposals and managed local programs.

Find out more about Peter Cove\\u2019s book on\\xa0Amazon.\\u200b