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Weekend Reads | The War on Poverty, 60 Years Later

by Kevin Schofield


This weekend’s read is a report from 2021 analyzing the results of the “War on Poverty,” declared in 1964 by then-President Lyndon Johnson. This isn’t the first attempt to decipher whether the “war” has been won or lost, nor will it be the last. But it turns out to be an interesting dive into the issues around how we define poverty.

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