Sentences with phrase «war on poverty by»

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

The most religious countries on the planet are the exact opposite: corrupt hell holes plagued by instability and war, famine, disease, and poverty.

The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by michael b. katz pantheon books, 293 pages, $ 22.95 In The Undeserving Poor, there are two Michael Katzes on view, the historian and the social commentator, and the former is much the more persuasive.

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.

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.

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».

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.

During his sermon, «Abdur - Rashid said that the United States is not «becoming great again» but rather is «still developing into a perfection of its greatness» and remarked on the upcoming 50th memorial anniversary of the sermon delivered by the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in which he spoke out against the Vietnam War and the «triple evils of militarism, racism and poverty.»

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.»

Still Segregated After 50 Years: A Visit to Cincinnati's West End Fifty years after the War on Poverty began, schools serving children in Cincinnati's West End are still largely segregated by economics and race.

Since the War on Poverty, the average gap in per - pupil spending between two states grew by 256 percent, an Education Week analysis finds.

Davies starts out by telling how President Lyndon Johnson, after his 1964 landslide victory over Barry Goldwater, made the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 integral to his War on Poverty.

Making child care available was viewed by many as a component in the «war on poverty,» though of course it was also seen as assistance to the increasing numbers of hard - pressed families in which two parents were at work.

Established in the mid-1960s as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «war on poverty,» the Head Start program was intended to prepare toddlers of low - income families for school by providing a mix of services, from education and health care to nutrition and family engagement.

Born in poverty in Alabama, Dial has lived his entire life in the American South, and his art, informed by decades of struggle as a black working - class man, reveals a unique perspective on America's most difficult and pervasive challenges, such as its long history of race and class conflict, the war in Iraq, and the 9/11 tragedy.

This artistic research, which relates the present dramatic situation of refugees to the historical experience of flight and exile between 1933 and 1945, focuses on the fragility of individual and societal conditions triggered by wars, poverty and terrorism.

Stomach ulcers caused by spicy food, vitamin C preventing viral infections, winnable wars on poverty, drugs, terrorism — as someone once said, there's one born every minute.

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.

By waging war on development in general and science in particular they have managed to kill untold millions and forced many to live in unnecessary poverty and suffering.

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