War on Poverty
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JESSE JACKSON: Myths and Lies About Poverty
No doubt, some will always be wealthier than others. We wouldn't want to live in a society that forced all…
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6 Imaginative New Ways America Has Found to Punish its Poor
(Salon) – In the 1960s, the Lyndon Johnson administration launched an official War on Poverty. Needless to say, poverty has…
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Obama Leads Discussion on Poverty
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist President Obama recently participated in a long overdue panel discussion on poverty at…
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Who Won the War on Poverty?
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Ronald Reagan quipped: “In the 60s we waged a war…
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Paul Ryan: ‘We’re in the 50th Anniversary in the War on Poverty, and We Are Not Winning It’
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) discussed the war on poverty on Greta Van Susteren’s “On The Record” show on Fox News…
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10 Commandments of Fatherhood
by Pastor E.A. Deckard Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times “Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more…
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Change Comes when Change is Demanded
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s declaration of a war on poverty…
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The War on Poverty – and MLK
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty at roughly the…
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Fighting Poverty on Two Fronts
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared a war on poverty. Appalled by…
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Republicans’ War on the Impoverished
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I have written about the huge opportunity Black dissatisfaction with Obama presents to the…
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