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 ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Speaking at a congressional hearing, Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the far-right Center for Immigration Studies, ...

Nearly 38 million Americans live in poverty today, 60 years after the signing of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The foundational law, signed by LBJ on Aug. 20, 1964, established the War on ...