Sentences with phrase «new war on poverty»

The students are in CFRP Director Dr. Cynthia Osborne's Policy Research Project (PRP) class and will share their yearlong research on specific policy objectives of the «new war on poverty» and unveil bold ideas for increasing sustainable employment among Texans and Americans.

One day, Edward Banfield brought in as guest lecturer to his Urban Problems course a young assistant labor secretary from Washington named Moynihan to talk about LBJ's new War on Poverty — my first glimpse of the man who would become my most important mentor and teacher.

Not exact matches

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.

Most of the 60's programs, like the War on Poverty, had very mixed results, with result that such Progressives were in some ways overtaken by the «New Left».

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.

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.

This optimism is based on the fact that the resources that are required to launch a global war on poverty and underdevelopment, including capital, technology, and human skills, exist in abundance in Africa and are within reach through a new global partnership based on shared responsibility and mutual interest.

A new book on charter schools and segregation, whose senior editor, Iris Rotberg, I first worked with in 1970 on the War on Poverty, has reminded me how tribally divided the policy research field has become.

In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, Christopher Jencks reviews Legacies of the War on Poverty and explains why there is disagreement over the impact of the War on Poverty (and also why it is so difficult to measure changes in the poverty rate overPoverty and explains why there is disagreement over the impact of the War on Poverty (and also why it is so difficult to measure changes in the poverty rate overPoverty (and also why it is so difficult to measure changes in the poverty rate overpoverty rate over time).

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Back then, we were still focused on terms such as The Cold War, nuclear winter, the war on poverty, racism, the oil shock, the Middle East situation, and later on, towards of our «three score and ten» on Earth newer terms such as 9 - 11, terrorism and global warmiWar, nuclear winter, the war on poverty, racism, the oil shock, the Middle East situation, and later on, towards of our «three score and ten» on Earth newer terms such as 9 - 11, terrorism and global warmiwar on poverty, racism, the oil shock, the Middle East situation, and later on, towards of our «three score and ten» on Earth newer terms such as 9 - 11, terrorism and global warming.

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Adapted from Chapter 2, «Population Pressure: Land and Water,» in Lester R. Brown, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009), available on - line at www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/books/pb4 Read more about biofuels: Biofuels Have Pushed Thirty Million People Into Poverty: Oxfam Biofuel Comparison Chart: The «Good,» the Bad and the (Really) Ugly Big Food's War on Biofuels