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In January of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the beginning of our country’s “War on Poverty” by saying, in part: “Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” 

President Johnson’s war on poverty was ambitious, radical, and intensely optimistic about what we, as a nation, could achieve. It imagined that every American would be offered the stability and opportunities we all need to thrive. 

Yet, in the intervening decades, the War on Poverty has instead become a war on the poor. Instead of details ⇒

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