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Fifty years after 'war on poverty': Who's poor now? (+video)
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Fifty years after 'war on poverty': Who's poor now? (+video)
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Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson declared a national “war on poverty,” the lives of low-income Americans have improved on many fronts even as the US faces persistent challenges, led by the prevalence of single-parent households.
Poverty is reduced but far from vanquished as a reality in the lives of American citizens.
That is borne out not only by statistics, but also by a political landscape today that features another Democratic president (named Obama rather than Johnson) arguing that new policies – from a minimum-wage hike to “promise zones” – are needed to bolster the fortunes of low-income Americans.
Here’s a look at America then and now, to compare how far the nation has come, and how far it has to go.
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Fifty years after the advent of the “war on poverty,” the lives of low-income Americans have improved on many fronts even as the US faces persistent challenges, led by the prevalence of single-parent households. Here are four yardsticks to measure American poverty, then and now.
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By Mark Trumbull, Staff writer
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