What happened to the War on Poverty? Is the US marching backward?
With the remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy and the passing of Sargent Shriver, a foot soldier in the War on Poverty, this week, I have been read about the early 1960s and listening to speeches by King and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
A recurring theme in these speeches is the struggle to raise Americans out of poverty. In the early 1960s, 20…
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