America's most successful and popular antipoverty program is 75 years old and still going strong despite its detractors best efforts to undermine it. Social Security is a great example of how government can actually do things better than the private sector.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/154034/happy-75th-birthday-social-security
http://www.thenation.com/blog/154034/happy-75th-birthday-social-security