The War on Poverty
President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty in his first State of the Union address delivered 50 years ago this week. There has been progress in the past half century. Seniors have benefited from Medicare and Meals on Wheels. Families with young children have been helped by Head Start. But the stubborn fact remains that today, as Sen. Bernie Sanders put it, “we have more people living in poverty than ever in the history of the United States and our childhood unemployment rate is the highest in the industrial world.”
