Summary: Despite their role in building America, a long campaign of misinformation by the Right has discredited government programs (except for war). Their top target has been the anti-poverty programs of the Great Society. Here we take a brief look at the numbers to see the actual results to this, one of America’s greatest collective efforts. {1st of 2 posts today.}
“This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort. It will not be a short or easy struggle, no single weapon or strategy will suffice, but we shall not rest until that war is won.”
— Lyndon Johnson’s State of the Union Address, 8 January 1964.
“Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.”
— Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union Address, 25 January 1988
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