Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” speech highlights the long road ahead.
“The opportunity to escape from the clutches of poverty.”
Check out this highlight from LBJ’s 1964 State of the Union. His declaration of an “unconditional War on Poverty” contains many lessons we still haven’t implemented. This 6-minute clip is definitely worth a watch:
See Also:
80% of Adults Face Near-Poverty, Unemployment
The Opposite of Poverty is Not Wealth
A Juvenile Public Defender & the Untreated Disease of Poverty
Whatever the government wages war on, we seem to get more of it. When are we going to start judging government programs according to their results, rather than according to their stated intentions?
I hope it works better than later Presidents and their “War on Cancer,” “War on Drugs,” or “War on Terror”….