War on Poverty at 50: How to Fight Poverty -- and Win

War on Poverty at 50: How to Fight Poverty -- and Win: "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 that noble goal."

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