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		Declaring war on poverty, Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson embarked upon a campaign to make the American dream a realizable goal for the entire nation.
		The War on Poverty sought to provide opportunity rather than equality; the chance to compete regardless of birth for the success to which all Americans are entitled.
		Despite the limited success of some of the War on Poverty, it nevertheless reshaped the relationship between Americans and their government, partly redefined poverty as a consequence of powerlessness, and empowered community action as a legitimate engine of social change.
	www.tenement.org /Encyclopedia/social_war.htm (602 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: President Lyndon B. Johnson: The War on Poverty, March 1964
		Because it is right, because it is wise, and because, for the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty, I submit, for the consideration of the Congress and the country, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
		We are fully aware that this program will not eliminate all the poverty in America in a few months or a few years.
		Poverty is deeply rooted and its causes are many.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1964johnson-warpoverty.html (1113 words)

	Causes of Poverty
		If generic theories are correct, poverty is caused by one set of forces (general, economy-wide problems) but distributed according to individual theories.
		There's some indirect evidence pointing to generic theories: For example, there is the failure of poverty to fall during periods of large training programs, and the failure of poverty to fall with rise in general educational level of population.
		The drop in average income, while a striking representation of the drop in the well-being of the average Iraqi citizen in the aftermath of the war, fails to capture the broader affects of damages to the infrastructure and social services, such as health care and access to clean water.
	www.gdrc.org /icm/poverty-causes.htm (1491 words)

	Charles R. Eckert / The Cause and Cure of War and Poverty
		Inasmuch as the problem of war remains unsettled, even after our participation in a war to end war, the Congress of the United States is confronted with the task of providing a military establishment adequate for the defense of the Nation.
		The two problems, war and poverty, persist in their onward march, and stubbornly refuse to yield to any of the nostrums and remedies proposed.
		The war in Africa, the recent war in China, the fear of war that is disturbing the foreign offices of the leading nations of the world are due to reasons that are not far to seek.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /eckert-charles_on-war-and-poverty.html (2586 words)

	War on Poverty Revisited by Thomas Sowell -- Capitalism Magazine
		The War on Poverty represented the crowning triumph of the liberal vision of society -- and of government programs as the solution to social problems.
		Government social programs such as the War on Poverty were considered a way to reduce urban riots.
		The poverty rate among fl families fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent in 1960, during an era of virtually no major civil rights legislation or anti-poverty programs.
	www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=3864 (843 words)

	The 'NEW' War On Poverty
		If we had not striped Mexico of its national resources and their vitality as a state-after the US War on Mexico-another war that began with a pre-emptive strike, none of this would be possible now.
		This truly is the rebirth of "The War on Poverty" - only this time the focus is on keeping the vast majority impoverished, and enriching their overlords even further, at the expense of a Viable World Order.
		What is still missing from the War on Poverty of 2006, as well as from the War on America; are the real leaders who could bring substantial and lasting changes to the way life that could and should be lived - now or in the future.
	www.rense.com /general70/newar.htm (1360 words)

	The alternative to war and poverty
		TODD CHRETIEN is the Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate from California, running against Dianne Feinstein, and a member of the International Socialist Organization.
		According to the War Resisters League, about half of this eye-popping sum goes to military spending.
		Lest you imagine that rank-and-file soldiers and sailors are rolling in the dough, keep in mind that only $110 billion of military spending goes to salaries, and only $76 billion for VA benefits.
	www.socialistworker.org /2006-1/583/583_04_Alternative.shtml (1257 words)

	Poverty in the USA
		The fact that "poverty" is a vague term and cannot be defined precisely, does not, of course, stop the government from using the word as if it were precise and the press going along with the scam, as is their way.
		In fact the government is not beyond declaring that poverty has increased or that it has decreased when the primary factor in the increase or decrease may be that the government has simply changed its definition of poverty.
		Since "poverty" is not absolute but a relative term, one has to wonder how does this definition of poverty compare with how we used to define poverty and how others countries of the world still define it.
	perspicuity.net /civics/poverty.html (1506 words)

	Causes for the breakdown in America’s social structure
		Homelessness, poverty, illegitimacy, and substance abuse have all contributed to the social breakdown.
		Poverty is more than a lack of material resources, and the causes of poverty cross all racial lines.
		Poverty also involves a myriad of psychological and moral problems such as self-destructive behavior, lack of motivation, irresponsibility, substance abuse, poor education, crime and promiscuity.
	www.freedom.org /news/200607/29/ward.phtml (803 words)

	Digital History
		Johnson's "war on poverty" represented the broadest attack Americans had ever waged on the special problems facing poor and disadvantaged families.
		As a result of reductions in poverty among the elderly and disabled and increases in the number of single parent, female headed households, poverty has been increasingly feminized.
		And yet, if the war on poverty accomplished more than its critics charged, there can be little doubt that the Johnson administration failed to persuade Americans that it had been successful.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/con_poverty.cfm (989 words)

	RFK in EKY: Reconsidering the War on Poverty
		RFK in EKY: Reconsidering the War on Poverty
		In other words, the "war on poverty" was basically Heller's opportunity strategy, with a dollop of community organizing and a few important human services thrown in.
		A complete war on poverty would involve much more: ensuring a quality education for every child, the guarantee of good jobs, universal health coverage, quality child care, adequate housing assistance and a safety net for those not in a position to work.
	www.appalshop.org /kennedy/project/poverty-war.htm (995 words)

	President Johnson's Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 8, 1964
		Poverty is a national problem, requiring improved national organization and support.
		The cause may lie deeper in our failure to give our fellow citizens a fair chance to develop their own capacities, in a lack of education and training, in a lack of medical care and housing, in a lack of decent communities in which to live and bring up their children.
		But whatever the cause, our joint Federal-local effort must pursue poverty, pursue it wherever it exists--in city slums and small towns, in sharecropper shacks or in migrant worker camps, on Indian Reservations, among whites as well as Negroes, among the young as well as the aged, in the boom towns and in the depressed areas.
	www.lbjlib.utexas.edu /johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640108.asp (2703 words)

	War And Poverty
		Also,it is to be understood war and poverty phraseology and terminology herin are for the purpose of the description and should not be regarded as limiting.
		Many academic institutions are realizing war and poverty importance of this type of training for their students as the job market becomes increasingly competitive.
		This war and poverty that you are entitled.
	websea.flashchannel.info /ay/war-and-poverty.html (1595 words)

	War On Want : Projects : War on Want Partners
		War on Want works in partnership with people who live in poverty in developing countries and struggle against need on a daily basis.
		War on Want works with people in war zones and areas of conflict as part of the fight against poverty.
		It is clear that conflict leads to greater poverty and poverty causes conflict.
	www.waronwant.org /?lid=110 (403 words)

	In war on poverty, early gains and a long stalemate \| csmonitor.com
		Today that war is not over, and there's a question as to whether the US or poverty has the upper hand.
		The legislative war on poverty was to be a multipoint program aimed at getting Washington, the states, and local authorities to work together.
		Almost forgotten today is the fact that, at the same time he proposed a war on poverty, LBJ also pledged to reduce overall federal spending by $500 million, in an effort to win conservatives' votes.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0109/p01s02-ussc.html (1112 words)

	The War on Poverty at 40 by Myron Magnet, City Journal Summer 2004
		At the heart of the War on Poverty was the utterly debilitating message that the worst-off were victims: that the larger society, “the system,” rather than their own behavior, was to blame for their poverty, their crime, their failure.
		What’s more, because “the system” was the problem, stacking the deck against fls so as to defeat their efforts—and “crippling” them into the bargain—the War on Poverty, instead of promoting the self-reliance and personal responsibility needed to seize opportunity, emphasized the need for political and legal action to transform the system.
		The Community Action Program, the War on Poverty’s first (and worst) initiative, rests on a bizarre circularity in reasoning: that the poor must become active in improving their lot by demanding more and better services and transfer payments of which they are the passive recipients.
	www.city-journal.org /html/14_3_sndgs01.html (1245 words)

	The conservative war on poverty—bring it on! - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
		The reaction from liberals to Bush's proposed War on Bayou Poverty has been outrage that Republicans would take advantage of the tragedy to advance their ideological agenda.
		If the conservative war on poverty succeeds, even in partial fashion, we will all be better for its success.
		Unfortunately, the conservative war on poverty in New Orleans probably won't take place in any concerted way, because Republicans and Democrats are equally terrified about what might happen.
	www.slate.com /id/2126738 (916 words)

	Oxfam - Debt and Aid - Paying the Price: Why rich countries must invest now in a war on poverty (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Millennium Development Goals, chosen on the grounds that they were realistic and achievable, are a commitment by global leaders to halve poverty and hunger, provide education for all, improve standards of health, halt the spread of major diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and slow down environmental degradation by 2015.
		Tackling global poverty requires more than money: poor countries’ prospects are also undermined by unfair trade rules, the violent consequences of the arms trade, and the impacts of global warming.
		Spending 0.7 per cent of their national income on aid is equal to a mere one-fifth of their expenditure on defence and one half of their expenditure on domestic farm subsidies.
	www.oxfam.org.uk /what_we_do/issues/debt_aid/mdgs_price.htm (2962 words)

	Wage war on poverty
		A war on poverty would, after all, be more effective in restraining terrorism - and more likely to succeed.
		But a serious war on poverty would also entail some check on the increasingly liquid movement of money around the world.
		A war on poverty, on the other hand, can and must be won.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Economics/Wage_War_Poverty.html_ (803 words)

	Printculture : War on the War on Poverty
		In reading the list of “wars on” (drugs, terror, pedophelia) in E Hayot’s recent post about the shift from “wars against” to “wars on,” I thought, “but what about the war on poverty?” Does its rhetoric follow a similar logic of metonymic contamination whereby a social problem is given profilable human features?
		The rhetoric of war is pervasive in the speech, but the assumptions behind the declaration of “unconditional war on poverty” seem notably different from those behind the more recent wars on drugs and terror.
		Once you shift the problem of poverty from a social responsibility to “personal responsibility,” once the poverty of circumstances is recast as a poverty of character, the metonymic slippage from “war on poverty” to “war on the poor” is all too easy.
	printculture.com /?itemid=67 (1102 words)

	A new war on poverty - The Boston Globe
		In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a War on Poverty, and the Economic Opportunity Act became law, ushering in job and training programs as well as efforts to reduce rural and urban poverty.
		A new war on poverty should be a crusade for children.
		Children's rate of poverty is 18 percent, higher than that of adults (10.8 percent) and the elderly (10.2 percent).
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2004/10/28/a_new_war_on_poverty (534 words)

	War Crimes :: Poverty :: World Poverty - New Measurement (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The new approach calls for the poverty line to be updated annually, based on consumer-spending patterns for food, clothing and housing in the previous three years.
		Under the proposed measure and using 1992 figures, the panel said a reasonable range for the poverty threshold would be $13,700 to $15,900 (in 1992 dollars) for a family of two adults and two children.
		Poverty is therefore not just an economic issue, it is also an issue of political economics.
	www.warcrimes.info /shop/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=205 (678 words)

	War on poverty - SourceWatch
		"The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's 'haves' and 'have-nots' continues to widen," McClatchy Newspapers' Tony Pugh reported February 22, 2007.
		"Stories of the grinding poverty among the survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans vividly illustrate what many say is a forgotten truth of modern American life — that pockets of desperate poverty still exist in a country of unsurpassed wealth and privilege," Kelley Beaucar Vlahos reported for Fox News, September 9, 2005.
		According to the Grolier Encyclopedia online edition on the American Presidency, the war on poverty was declared on January 8, 1964, in President Lyndon B. Johnson's State of the Union address in an attempt "to break the cycle of poverty affecting nearly 35 million Americans.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=War_on_poverty (1199 words)

	Reports and Publications
		Poverty eradication is the principal goal of development cooperation, and is UNDP's central mission and overriding objective.
		Poverty is about lack of access, lack of power, lack of income and resources to make choices and take advantage of opportunities.
		The human face of poverty is often a woman or a child's face.
	www.undp.org.za /docs/reports/wopdecl.html (814 words)

	ARC \| Research Reports
		Poverty in rural Appalachia cannot be measured simply by comparing family income to some arbitrary income cutoff.
		To be sure, poverty rates may mask significant differences between Appalachia and the rest of the nation in "deep poverty"; at the other end of the socioeconomic ladder, they may also misrepresent the level of economic "comfort" in a given population.
		In this report, we consider a measure of poverty concentration based on the index of dissimilarity, which indicates the minimum proportion of the poor who would have to move to a different county in order for the poor to be distributed evenly across Appalachia.
	www.arc.gov /index.do?nodeId=2919 (1862 words)

	War on poverty slips from election agenda - Boston.com
		It's not clear if the boat is a remnant of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated this city more than a year ago, but the message of the graffiti is unmistakable: politicians failed to deliver for those who lost their homes in the hurricane.
		Poverty has been a Democratic issue since President Lyndon Johnson declared a "war on poverty" in 1964, but Edwards said Democrats see risks in promoting the issue, fearing they would be painted as big-government spenders.
		Robert Rector of the conservative Heritage Foundation think-tank argued there is little actual poverty in the United States and most poor people had a house, car, television, air conditioning, food and medical care.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/10/25/war_on_poverty_slips_from_election_agenda (771 words)

	War against poverty proves difficult
		He further said that the agenda on poverty should not skip intellectual debates, which have drawn a conclusion that poverty is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon.
		This is also a challenge to local researchers on poverty reduction and other stakeholders on poverty agenda, that aid is not an effective approach of eradicating poverty as it is tied with conditionality and is not forthcoming in accordance with the rhetoric promises.
		Also, poverty incidence is still not at acceptable levels, rural poverty is still growing, illiteracy is still high, pegged at 28.6 per cent and the fact that more than a third of Tanzanians cannot satisfy their basic needs.
	www.ippmedia.com /ipp/guardian/2005/09/24/50295.html (1525 words)

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