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There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.

By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.