Soon after President Johnson declared his commitment to end poverty, Congress passed the bipartisan Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and critical civil rights legislation, which created the legislative framework to expand economic opportunity through anti-poverty, health, education, and employment policies. While many of the programs that emerged from this national commitment are now taken for granted, the nation would be unrecognizable to most Americans if they had never been enacted. Johnson, January 8, 1964įifty years have passed since President Johnson first declared a War on Poverty in his 1964 State of the Union address. The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. … It will not be a short or easy struggle, no single weapon or strategy will suffice, but we shall not rest until that war is won. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.
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