Sentences with phrase «war on poverty did»

Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start, summer programs, housing subsidies, and the other components of Johnson's War on Poverty did not become available until 1965.

Powell was a one man sit in who integrated Capitol Hill and has chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee was instrumental in getting Medicaid expanison, minimum wage increases, Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnsons» War on Poverty done through legislation.

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Jay Conrad Levinson and Shel Horowitz show, on every page, that not only can business succeed by tackling hunger, poverty, war, and climate change, but that doing so can change the world.

You are idiots for calling him on the carpet, instead you should be getting the federal government out of the poverty fighting business, The war on poverty is over 44 years old and for all intents and purposes all it did was create an out of control bureaucracy that needs to be taken apart and labeled a bad idea for future generations.

Lyndon Johnson's overly ambitious Great Society program, especially its failed War on Poverty, did much to diminish the faith in government that FDR's New Deal had generated.

Yeah, there's other big problems — like war, and poverty, and greed — but if we don't have a stage to play them on, then what's the point?»

What troubles me most as I look back on that period is our willingness then to do anything short of war to destroy the Chinese revolution, even though the result would have been to throw China back into the massive poverty, corruption and partial anarchy that preceded the revolution.

While the county executive did a nice job of summarizing recent accomplishments and forwarding some new proposals, I was taken aback by his announced intention to fight the War on Poverty in Erie County.

At the White House, Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) wants to focus on a war on poverty and doesn't see a political benefit for himself in King's desire for federal voting rights legislation.

One such message, directed to LBJ, argued, «equal opportunity for Negroes [as promised in the War on Poverty and the 1964 Civil Rights Act] does not produce equal results — because the Negroes today are a grievously injured people who in fair and equal competition will by and large lose out.»

Although I have argued that the absolute poverty rate has declined dramatically since President Johnson launched his War on Poverty in 1964, it does not follow that the programs he launched between 1964 and 1968 caused the dpoverty rate has declined dramatically since President Johnson launched his War on Poverty in 1964, it does not follow that the programs he launched between 1964 and 1968 caused the dPoverty in 1964, it does not follow that the programs he launched between 1964 and 1968 caused the decline.

they are more guilty then the average folk in causing harm to the people of the world including the thrid world nations (spending trillions on bank bailouts, wars, etc), they have done nothing to mitgate their poverty, but have made it worse by their controls over the govs, and they have caused more harm by their instigating wars between nations funding both sides and frankly making a pure nusiance out of themselves so if you want to trust such people I feel sorry for you, they do not care about you.