This week the Alabama Policy Institute, a non-profit free market think tank based in Birmingham, is exploring conservative solutions to poverty. Since its implementation in the 1960s, the “War on Poverty” has cost trillions in taxpayer dollars, with less than clear outcomes.

For Friday’s installment in the series, API shared an infographic showing just how expensive, and ineffective, of a program the War on Poverty has been, and suggesting some alternate ways the government could get out of the way to relieve poverty.

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— Elizabeth BeShears (@LizEBeesh) January 21, 2015