How to Fight Poverty -- and Win - Heritage.org (blog)

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How to Fight Poverty -- and Win Heritage.org (blog) When President Johnson launched the War on Poverty on Jan. 8, 1964, he pledged “not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” Sadly, the half-century legacy of Johnson's Great Society has not lived up to ... Deep divides split Washington over how to combat poverty How to help the poor? Your Say LBJ's Mistake Was Promising to "Win" the War on Poverty