Undercovered in 2015: The Link Between Deportation and Incarceration, and More

Around this time every year, BillMoyers.com asks reporters, editors and bloggers which key story they feel the mainstream media failed to cover adequately over the last 12 months. This is the first installment of a two-part series.

By Bill Moyers and Staff and Contributors, Moyers & Company

The Social Safety Net Reduced Poverty by Nearly Half

One of the greatest hoaxes pulled on the American people is the assertion that "we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won." The conservative talking point was first uttered by President Reagan, and it has been pushed incessantly by the political class and the media ever since.

But it's not true.