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 ...

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

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

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 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 ...

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.

Then, I think of the money wasted on war-making by the U.S. and NATO nations ... and against all odds — addressing overwhelming poverty on one hand, and confronting nuclear madness on the ...