Out of the nineteen countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States has the highest ranking for money dissimilarity and destitution, alongside Mexico and Turkey. Most of the colored people living in poverty, in 1964, lived on the border of hope due to their skin color and financial status. When the Great Society was established the portion of Americans living in poverty dropped from 22.2 to 12.6 percent, but many of the programs set forth by President Lyndon B. Johnson have been slowly diminishing over the years, and the rate for poverty is slowly increasing. Over the years, the “Other America” shows signs of age and flaws of the whole concept. Many impoverished people were undereducated, underprivileged, and lack medicare. The government has been working on addressing income inequality and poverty. The government has established policies to address income inequality and to assist poor households. The Progressive Income Tax had wealthier people paying a higher tax. The Public Assistance Tax established federal unemployment insurance, Medicare, and federal welfare programs, for example Food Stamps, all of these helped poor. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act aided people with food, jobs, an increased income support, tax breaks, and homes for people who are already or on their way to being homeless. Substantial scale anti poverty programs have accomplished huge and positive results in numerous developing countires around the globe in the previous decade. I trust that more prominent accentuation ought to be set on comprehension the political components that cutoff the extension and survivability of antipoverty programs. The wealthier people of world do not pay any mind to the impoverished people of their community, even though they could be the solution to ending