War on Poverty

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• 4/23/2023
  

  Annelise Orleck on "Storming Caesar's Palace" and the Lessons of the Welfare Rights Movement

  by Michan Connor

  A leading historian of poor people's activism joins HNN for a discussion of the new edition of her acclaimed book on the Las Vegas Welfare Rights movement, which is the basis for a documentary now streaming on PBS. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/7/2022
  

  Adults Support Empowering Youth – Until Youth Dissent

  by Dara Walker

  American youth are seldom credited for having a clear understanding of the policies that affect their lives. COVID safety walkouts are the latest example of student activism to be dismissed.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/2/2020
  

  George Floyd’s Death Is a Failure of Generations of Leadership

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  To begin to dismantle the socioeconomic conditions that led to Mr. Floyd’s premature death, we can look to the principles of community representation and grass-roots empowerment that steered the early development of Johnson’s domestic program.

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• SOURCE: African American Intellectual History Society
  9/17/19
  

  Revisiting the Poor People's Campaign and Its Legacy

  by Bobby Cervantes

  Sylvie Laurent’s new book about the Poor Peoples Campaign is not far removed from the political scene today.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1-6-14
  

  Why the "War on Poverty" Isn't Over

  by Stephanie Coontz

  And why it was actually a remarkable success.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1-9-14
  

  Why Presidents Stopped Talking About Poverty

  by Jeff Shesol

  LBJ was the last president to talk about poverty in a substantive way.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1-8-14
  

  LBJ's Mistake Was Promising to "Win" the War on Poverty

  by Jonathan Cohn

  How to measure whether or not the "war on poverty" worked.

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• SOURCE: TIME Magazine
  1-8-14
  

  Conservatives say War on Poverty failed

  On 50th anniversary of LBJ speech.