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 ...

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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As a reminder, on the eve of the war Israeli society was, according to official figures, one of the poorest in the OECD, with just under 21% of the population living below the poverty line.

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If you haven't read his books Evicted, and Poverty, by America, you owe it to yourself to do that. They're revealing, important works that shed light on the lived experience of many, many Americans.

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"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 ...

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.

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 ...

Disputes over trade, the Ukraine war and how to tackle climate change ... further underscores the diminishing commitment to global poverty reduction at a time when it's needed most," said Dirk ...