To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty this year, The Chronicle asked readers to submit stories about how the effort affected their careers. Arnold F. Fege shared his story. Before ...
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released Monday a Republican critique of the War on Poverty begun by President Lyndon B. Johnson 50 years ago, in an election-year counterpunch to the ...
List of entries -- List of primary documents -- Introduction -- Entries : A-Z -- Epilogue : great society at 50 -- Primary documents Entries : Affirmative action ; African American Civil Rights ...
Half in Ten, a 10-year campaign that aims to cut poverty in half by 2020, is sponsoring a 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty Storytelling Contest. The winner, who will be announced on December 16, ...
Government makes most things worse. President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a war on poverty; President Richard Nixon a war on drugs. Both had good intentions, but their "wars" do more harm than good. I ...
ANAC copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents African Americans, civil rights, and the war on poverty in Los Angeles -- Struggles for Black empowerment in Watts -- Interracial strife and the ...
It was the early 1960s. It was the time of the New Frontier, the Great Society, and the War on Poverty programs. It was the era of the Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service to America, and Community ...
It has long been said that Americans have short attention spans, but this is ridiculous: Our bold, urgent, far-reaching, post-Katrina war on poverty lasted maybe a month. Credit for our ability to ...
Government makes most things worse. President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a war on poverty; President Richard Nixon a war on drugs. Both had good intentions, but their "wars" do more harm than good. I ...