Sentences with phrase «war on poverty in»

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood before Congress and the nation and declared an «unconditional» war on poverty in America.

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 decline.

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.

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.

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 poverty.

Not exact matches

The first, the Economic Opportunity Loan, was devised in 1964 as a weapon in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.

Despite the more than $ 22 trillion the federal government has spent over the past five decades fighting the War on Poverty, nearly 40.6 million Americans remain trapped in pPoverty, nearly 40.6 million Americans remain trapped in povertypoverty.

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.

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 killeIn 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 killein 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 killein 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.»

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.&raquIn 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.&raquIn 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.&raquin its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.&raquin America.»

Now our calling is to love and accept people one - on - one, caring for them where they are... We're joining our community in a different culture war — one that attacks poverty, crime, addiction, and pain.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That figure is larger than in the 1960s when the war on poverty was launched, and this despite the fact that welfare spending, adjusting for inflation, rose throughout the 1970s and 1980s to its present all - time high.

We declared «War on Poverty» — a war that ended in disillusionment and defeWar on Poverty» — a war that ended in disillusionment and defewar that ended in disillusionment and defeat.

just read the American Government warnings for Citizens travelling in Mexico and you will know that Paradise Earth is no longer Heaven on Earth... Rebellions, Refugees camps, Government Corruption, Wars, Death, Wealth disparity, injustice, State Security regulations... Poverty, unnecessary suffering, Death... Toxic Assets, Economic Depression, Filthy Rich and Perversion....

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..

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.

There was no school breakfast program when I was in school, and poverty was common enough that the government felt the need to declare war on it, and yet the streets weren't littered with young corpses.

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.

The family, voluntary organisations, private sector development charities, school choice, tough love in welfare and thrift are among our distinctive non-state weapons in the war on poverty.

«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».»

[26] At the time, many leftists were leaving in disgust at the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action Group.

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.

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.»

The common explanation is that the Egyptian people, rich and poor alike, turned to God after everything else failed: the mess of the government's socialist experiment in the 1960s; the downfall of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Arab nationalism; the military debacle of the 1967 war with Israel; poverty; inept government — the list goes on.

Premier Li Keqiang said in his report to parliament on Wednesday that the country would «declare war on pollution» in the same way it declared war on poverty, but critics say stronger rhetoric might not be enough without deeper legal and institutional reform.

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.

Grace Kao, associate ethics professor at Claremont School of Theology, in Claremont, California, mentioned additions she will make to her Introduction to Christian Ethics course, such as discussing epigenetic alterations associated with war trauma for a session on war and peace, the science behind shopping and the ways that poverty can change your genes for a segment about economics, and an exploration of whether genes can predict a person's liberalism and conservatism for a session on religion and politics.

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.

Bennett's film credits include Citizen King and Fisk Jubilee Singers for the PBS series «American Experience,» Hymn for Alvin Ailey for «Dance in America,» and the award - winning PBS mini-series Africans in America and America's War on Poverty.

Set in the Japanese archipelago, twenty years in the future, one of the more damaging issues on the environment isn't war, famine, or poverty, but dogs.

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.»

After 1965, when community - action programs within the War on Poverty encountered substantial problems, he toned down his once strong faith in governmental expertise, emphasizing that some Great Society liberals had «lost a sense of limits.»

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.

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 pPoverty and its impact on the lives of children, especially those living in povertypoverty.

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.

In 1965, as part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, Congress passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

The housing programs expanded through the War on Poverty provide stability for many assisted families, but their children still often grow up in concentrated pPoverty provide stability for many assisted families, but their children still often grow up in concentrated povertypoverty.

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 pPoverty and its impact on the lives of children, especially those living in povertypoverty.

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.

There is, of course, a lot of running room in the «helping parents» field — a field littered with yellow flag penalty markers stretching back to the Great Society and the War on Poverty.