The war on poverty is just as existential for hundreds of thousands of families struggling with it. As of now, however, in ...

This is the war on poverty. This war has no enlisted army, no emergency call-ups, no procurement budgets, no strategy, no goals, and no cabinet to debate operational plans or post-war policies.

When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America. But more than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later ...

Perhaps driven by his own humble beginnings, Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" as central to building the Great Society. In 1960, despite the prosperity of the times, almost one-quarter of all ...

"In the sixties we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won," Ronald Reagan said last year, in one of the one-sentence pronouncements he has sometimes made to the press while walking across the ...

President Johnson took on the economy by waging a "war on poverty." "His vision was of helping the disadvantaged to help themselves," Robert Dallek says.

in almost 60 years. One other stop we need to make before we delve into a look back at the look back on the War on Poverty and its housing elements at its 50 th anniversary is a visit to the ...

Born in 1503 in France, Nostradamus is globally renowned for his prophecies. Even after his death in 1566, his predictions ...

In discussing methods of community organization, Alinsky repeated an earlier statement that the federal government's War On Poverty is an example of "political pornography." He said that Sargent ...