Around that time, 32% of Black Americans lived below the poverty line, with a median income of about $24,000 in 1964. On the ...

My research with collaborators digs deeper into the workings of specific War on Poverty programs, seeking evidence about ...

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Education workers are mobilizing for a day of action on May 1. Building toward a national walkout should come next.

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The Medina Municipal Airport, four miles east of the Medina business district on Ohio 18, was the site of a members-only tour ...

Most presidents have limited themselves to small changes to Social Security, whether they tried to improve it or destroy it.

Born in poverty in Texas Hill Country, President Johnson delivered an unsurpassed series of momentous legislation, including the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. Yet by 1968 he was so ...

WASHINGTON – Once again with his back pressed to the wall by hard-right Republicans, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton, was able to pull off Thursday another narrow victory to forward the ...

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The National Endowment for the Humanities emerged during the Great Society era. The cascade of promises made by the federal government under President Lyndon B. Johnson included a commitment to ...