Closer to home, the last Labour government fought a war on poverty using various benefits.
He ran President Johnson's War on Poverty and was U.S. ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970.
In that speech, Lyndon Johnson advocated a war on poverty which had noble intentions and some enduring successes.
Dr. King was invested in the war on poverty, but the federal government and the media were invested in the war in Vietnam.
While Escobar has accomplished a great deal in the last decade, one thing is clear: Her personal war on poverty has just begun.
The war on poverty established a federal commitment to the poor.
There is no great society which is not a caring society, and any effective war on poverty must deploy what Dorothy Day called the weapons of spirit.
Prior to the War on Poverty, the United States was getting more prosperous with each passing year and there were dramatic reductions in the level of destitution.
Big increases in government spending associated with the Great Society programs, the war on poverty, the Vietnam War, and the Space Race, resulted in large deficits (by 1971 standards of course).
Poverty fell sharply after the Depression, before the War on Poverty, declining from 32% in 1950 to 22.4% in 1959 to 12.1% in 1969, soon after the War on Poverty programs became effective.
He called in at Gee's Bend, a poor black corner of Alabama, and Inez, a tiny Kentucky coal town where Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty (a third of Inez's residents remain below the poverty line).
When the new poverty report from Census comes out this month, The Huffington Post reports a consensus survey of experts indicates poverty could soar to as high as 15.7%, a record since the War on Poverty began in 1965.
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RFK's 1968 presidential bid, which combined vocal opposition to an unpopular war with a telegenic focus on alleviating poverty.
This week and last they covered issues they feel were left out of the national dialogue, posting articles and conversational chat segments on poverty, the war on drugs and the amount of money spent in politics.
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Vatican II brought forward radical thought on issues from poverty and war to workplace justice and the family.
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War on Want, which campaigns to end global poverty, said aid should not just stop because India had become a middle-income country.
The world will not be rid of poverty, war or terrorism until almost everyone on Earth is in the middle class.
Views on things like climate change, war and peace, the present capitalist economic model and poverty would all be welcome contributions to the public discourse, rather than lectures on gay marriage.
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