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INVESTIGATES: Despite an unprecedented increase in federal anti-poverty spending the national poverty rate has not declined, it finds. “[S]ince President Obama took office, federal welfare spending has increased by 41 percent, more than $193 billion per year.” the study says. Federal welfare spending this year now totals $668 billion, spread out over 126 programs, while the poverty rate that remains stubbornly high at nearly 15 percent – roughly where it was in 1965, when President Johnson declared a federal War on Poverty.