Question

Do you think that Johnson's war on poverty obtained the results that it was intended to have? Explain your reasoning in 250 words or more.

Answer 1

"The Johnson administration directed funding h ways consistent with the war on poverty's rhetoric of fighting poverty and racial discrimination: poorer areas and those with a greater share of nonwhite residents received systematically more funding. The smaller role of politics may explain the strong backlash against the war on poverty's programs. In his first state of the union address in January 1964, president Lyndon B Johnson asked congress to declare an ""unconditional war on poverty"" and to aim ""not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and above all to prevent it"" (1965). We analyze how the war on poverty was fought through the lens of the legislation that came to define it: the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA). The centerpiece legislation created the office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to coordinate Federal antipoverty initiatives and empower the poor to transform their own communities. An important and often forgotten"