As we wage the war against poverty for the next generation, let’s fight smarter.

Kennedy a copy. The president charged Heller with launching a legislative assault on poverty. After Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson took up that charge, waging a war on poverty.

That seems to be the intention behind DUP leader Gavin Robinson’s decision to “put a marker down” in opposing Irish language ...

Worryingly for Starmer and Reeves, MPs elected last year are starting to go public with their opposition to welfare cuts, writes John Rentoul – and there are growing numbers prepared to vote against ...

The solutions exist, and they are well known, such as increasing social allocations or by implementing recommendations from the 2013 Elalouf Committee on the war against poverty in Israel.

"There are many good anti-poverty programs today," Keyserling said, but they are moving too slowly, or in the wrong direction. A war against poverty must be a total national commitment, he said.

In spite of mass poverty doggedly hounding the nation, no administration has ever waged a veritable war against poverty. One reason is we keep electing official ...