Vice President Kamala Harris has touted an economic vision for America called the “Opportunity Society.” The agenda harkens ...

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 ...

White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II ...

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 ...

His music kept the Black community's spirits lifted in an era when nearly 1 in 7 Americans had plunged into poverty, crack ...

"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 ...

They have, however, changed since President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed “unconditional” war on poverty. This word suggested a fallacious assumption: Poverty persisted only because of hitherto ...

The number of Americans living in poverty, according to the nation’s official definition, fell slightly to about 36.8 million ...

Adelman, Clem 1993. Kurt Lewin and the Origins of Action Research. Educational Action Research, Vol. 1, Issue. 1, p. 7.

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 ...

Johnson visited Tom Fletcher’s house in Martin County in 1964. Johnson declared a war on poverty that day that led to trillions of dollars in federal spending, largely through benefits programs ...

In governmental politics, we need to renew our War on Poverty and fight this war until we have ended the destruction of America and Americans from inside out. Rev. Tim Ahrens is senior minister ...