Providing Government Aid to Impoverished People Helps, Not Hurts.

For years conservative politicians have denounced the effectiveness of social services for low income families. New data proves they have always been wrong.

Queen’s community members line up to receive food from Food Bank for New York City. (Photo by Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Food Bank For New York City,)

A piece of rhetoric I never understood was how it was “wrong” to give government aid to impoverished people in need.

In America, the concept of independence is interpreted as one should never give or r…