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War on the Poor

Opinion
The war on poverty vs. the war on the poor
President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared an unconditional “War on Poverty” in his 1964 State of the Union address, initiating one of the most ambitious policy initiatives in American history aimed at systemic economic inequality.
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