Sentences with phrase «of war on poverty»

Press Release: 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty: Have we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory?

None of these initiatives will remind folks of the War on Poverty or other grand federal gestures.

The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) was created as a central part of the War on Poverty.

On the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, Cantor was among several high - profile lawmakers raising a GOP voice in the national discourse around poverty and policy.

Many of these policy advocates were veterans of the War on Poverty and the civil rights movement.

A Lesson plan on the NYTimes Learning Network contrasts this speech with a news report of the War on Poverty 50 years later.

Since its beginning in 1965 as a part of the War on Poverty, Head Start «s goal has been to boost the school readiness of low - income children.

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 over time).

The Problem of Head Start Nowhere is resistance to structured, curriculum - based, standards - and - assessment - driven early education clearer than in the big, iconic, federal early - childhood program known as Head Start, a legacy of Lyndon Johnson's mid-1960s declaration of war on poverty.

Forgive an aging education - reformer's reminiscences, but LBJ's declaration of war on poverty shaped the next 50 years of my life.

That was Lyndon B. Johnson's vision in devising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as part of the War on Poverty.

At the dawn of the War on Poverty, it was necessary for Coleman and his colleagues to document and describe the racial gaps in achievement they were intending to address.

Those efforts trace back to President Johnson's 1964 declaration of a War on Poverty, when he made the case that the country had to conquer hunger to help children make educational...

Cooke's committee, which met several times in January and February of 1965, had a free hand in designing Head Start, which became the best known and most popular of the War on Poverty programs.

It is my understanding that affirmative action in higher education was an extension of the War on Poverty, which was expected to provide students from low - income families with greater access to predominantly white colleges and universities.

The federal role in education has been a growth industry since at least the Johnson administration, when the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA, now the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA) was passed as a part of the War on Poverty, with a focus on closing the achievement gap and equalizing funding between the rich and the poor.

I spent two wonderful years as a public school math teacher and then unexpectedly got the job of a lifetime — working for the federal government as part of the War on Poverty.

This series of articles in Education Week, to be gathered over 18 months, reflects on the anniversary of the War on Poverty and its impact on the lives of children, especially those living in poverty.

This package of stories and multimedia reflects on the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty and its impact on the lives of children, especially those living in poverty.

The ambitious early - childhood program launched in 1965 as part of the War on Poverty is going through dramatic — and sometimes painful — changes, while continuing to pursue its mission.

The lack of progress in building self - sufficiency since the beginning of the War on Poverty 50 years ago is due in major part to the welfare system itself.

At the Library of Law and Liberty, Greg Weiner reconsiders Daniel Patrick Moynihan's criticisms of the War on Poverty, and suggests conservatives who frequently cite his work on the subject miss Moynihan's broader point: It was not that too much money was being misspent on the poor, but rather that those resources which were directed at the poor were all too often funneled through the middle class professional classes:

The Community Action Program of the War on Poverty with its slogan «maximum feasible participation of the poor» might at first sight appear inspired by Alinsky.

Not exact matches

It focuses on helping victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine.

As a result, Mr. Xi embarked on a massive anti-corruption campaign that the Chinese public has broadly applauded, just like they applaud the successes of his massive war on poverty and environmental degradation.

Her article goes a long way toward explaining the feminization of poverty and the war on children, phenomena that in my view could eventually destroy the social fabric of our nation and undermine any hope of a bright future for my two young sons.

LBJ's War on Poverty sure got the man out of his castle.

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.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

Countless times in his career, Michael Harrington heard himself introduced as «the author of The Other America, the book that sparked the war on poverty.»

At a press conference on Monday to present the report, Cardinal Louis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines said Catholic clergy meeting here have largely focused on the impact of poverty, war and immigration on families.

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Governmentby charles murraysimon and schuster, 341 pages, $ 19.95 In January of 1964 President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers helped launch the War on Poverty by including in its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.&raquOf Happiness and Good Governmentby charles murraysimon and schuster, 341 pages, $ 19.95 In January of 1964 President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers helped launch the War on Poverty by including in its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.&raquof 1964 President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers helped launch the War on Poverty by including in its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.&raquof Economic Advisers helped launch the War on Poverty by including in its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.&raquof Poverty in America.»

There Murray tried to demonstrate, with an imposing array of technical information, that the War on Poverty had eventually aggravated most of the problems it set out to solve.

We are forced to conclude that a major reason that clergymen high on doctrinalism are so unlikely to preach about the problems of race, war and poverty is that they see such problems as mundane in contrast to the joys of the world to come, and besides, they believe these social ills would take care of themselves if enough men were brought to Christ.

On top of that, the same right - wing cons who praise capitalism as the reason that millions of people have, truthfully, found a way out of poverty, support politicians who keep wages stagnated, attack the very CONCEPT of a minimum wage despite the skyrocketing inflation and general cost of living, and support one war after another that makes a handful of people VERY rich while millions suffer, and thousands of troops come home with no legs (and thus, lose their jobs and often never recover).

The news media now bring the world of violence, poverty, war, and moral debauchery to the mind on wide screen, in color.

But goals are also needed defining the next step which needs to be taken in any given area of human activity, whether it be in the local schools, in dealing with poverty, in fighting pollution, in combating racial discrimination, in ending the war in Vietnam, and so on.

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.

One alternative is that we should recognize that the entire kit and caboodle of welfare policies and «war on poverty» programs is misconceived.

But we all participate in ideologies that can be brought to bear on the problems that plague our species — evils of war, poverty, racism, hatred, genocide, marginalization, consumerism, the systematic rape of our planet to support extractive economies, etc..

Greg Weiner at the Library of Law and Liberty blog writes today to remind us that The War on Poverty Turns 50.

Those who seek a plan for reorganizing society on Christian lines make a judgment of society and a demand on the world — the judgment that the world ought not to be as it is, and the demand that society so change that there will be no more war, no more poverty, no more exploitation of man; so change that a Christian finds it satisfactory.

This is a good thing, but in the critique of Ralph Winter that David Hesselgrave gave, he referred to Ralph Winter's reliance on Gregory Boyd's view of «microbial evil» and the necessity of kingdom work overcoming the forces of darkness as represented by disease and poverty in war.

On the other hand, the techniques of postcivilization also offer us the possibility of a society in which the major sources of human misery have been eliminated, a society in which there will be no war, poverty, or disease, and in which a large majority of human beings will be able to live out their lives in relative freedom from most of the ills which now oppress a major part of mankind.

The loyalties of generations of church - going Americans were called into question as the civil rights movement became an anti-war movement and then a war on poverty.

Since the initiation of President Lyndon B Johnson's War on Poverty in 1964, the federal government has spent $ 22 trillion dollars trying to lift low - income Americans out of pPoverty in 1964, the federal government has spent $ 22 trillion dollars trying to lift low - income Americans out of povertypoverty.

In the early days of the federal War on Poverty in the 1960s, researchers provided three - and four - year - olds from impoverished Ypsilanti, Michigan, with enriched preschooling, and then compared their life trajectories over several decades with those of Ypsilanti peers who had not received any early childhood education.

If I'm wrong, RT's rolodex of politicians, hacks and academics are welcome on their next appearance to add that all these problems - inequality, poverty, corruption, repression and war - are much worse in Russia.

«Who here is the small «c» conservative saying to people «stay stuck in your sink estates» - have nothing better than what Labour gave you after the war... that's the fact of politics today - a party on this side of the house that wants to give people life chances and a Labour opposition that says «say stuck in poverty».»

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».