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Megan McArdle: The War on Poverty is far from over

Adam Smith pointed out long ago that poverty is not an objective fact but a relative condition.

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Steve Riddell who said that he recently lost his job but doesn't qualify for food stamps waits to recieve a box of food to get him and his wife by. Behind him volunteers of the Utah Food Bank pack food boxes in the parking lot of the LDS Church at 1860 S. 300 E. in Salt Lake City Friday April 13. It's one of 18 locations the bank operates to get food out to the food insecure. Walmart, Feeding America and Utah Food Bank are teaming up during the month of April to fight hunger through an online and in-store donation campaign.