On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” “Poverty is a national problem, requiring improved ...

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 ...

"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 ...

In a curious coincidence, the inauguration of Donald Trump falls on a day we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King ...

Policy analysts say poverty rates in the U.S. are well below where they were when President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The evidence of cash transfers—particularly unconditional ones—alleviating long-term poverty and boosting child well-being must inform the future of safety-net spending in the United States. Given the ...

Tell the New York Post: Stop Driving... PBS has taken down "Voices from the Frontline: China’s War on Poverty," a documentary that reveals how China took 100 million citizens out of poverty. PBS is ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” “Poverty is a national problem, requiring improved national ...