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 ...

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 ...

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty,” and since then, federal spending on ...

Selma showed the world that change doesn’t come from waiting — it comes from marching, from pushing, from refusing to be ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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Poverty is a big deal here in Columbia. We all know that. Putting it plainly, it is an embarrassment for such a highly educated, wealthy city to have such a high poverty rate. What does “high ...

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.

Webb County Head Start clarifies that social media changes do not signal program cuts but funding remains uncertain.

Dahlia K. Remler ([email protected]) is a professor in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, and a faculty affiliate at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research ...