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The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent. The speech led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to administer the local application of federal funds targeted against poverty.
As a part of the Great Society, Johnson believed in expanding the federal government's roles in education and health care as poverty reduction strategies. These policies can also be seen as a continuation of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, which ran from 1933 to 1935, and the Four Freedoms of 1941. Johnson stated "Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it".
The legacy of the War on Poverty policy initiative remains in the continued existence of such federal programs as Head Start, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), TRIO, and Job Corps.
Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is the 54th and current Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Ryan is a member of the Republican Party, who has served as the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district since 1999. Ryan previously served as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, from January 3 to October 29, 2015, and, before that, as Chairman of the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015. He was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, running alongside Governor Mitt Romney in the 2012 election. Ryan, together with Democratic Senator Patty Murray, negotiated the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013.
On October 29, 2015, Ryan was elected to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and named John David Hoppe as his Chief of Staff. He is the first person from Wisconsin to hold this position.
Ryan was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, the youngest of four children of Elizabeth A. "Betty" (née Hutter) and Paul Murray Ryan, a lawyer. A fifth-generation Wisconsinite, his father was of Irish ancestry and his mother is of German and English ancestry. One of Ryan's paternal ancestors settled in Wisconsin prior to the Civil War. His great-grandfather, Patrick William Ryan (1858–1917), founded an earthmoving company in 1884, which later became P. W. Ryan and Sons and is now known as Ryan Incorporated Central. Ryan's grandfather, Stanley M. Ryan, was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
As income inequality has grown across America, Poppy Harlow tracks the story of one woman stuck in poverty for years. More from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/ To license video from CNN/HLN go to CNNImagesource.com or e-mail: cnn.imagesource@turner.com
This video was presented at the 2014 CED Grantee Conference. The theme of the conference was the 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty. This video provides a background and history of the War on Poverty and where we are as a country 50 years since the effort to expand economic opportunity began.
President Lyndon Johnson calls on Congress to fight a war on poverty.
In his powerful and inspiring talk, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (WI-1), current Chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee and 2012 Republican Vice Presidential nominee, presents a comprehensive plan for reducing poverty in America by empowering local community leaders and focusing federal funds on evidence-based, results-driven solutions. Currently serving his ninth term as a member of Congress, Paul Ryan (WI-1) serves as the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. During the 112th & 113th Congresses, he served as chairman of the House Budget Committee, where he put forward specific plans to tackle our looming fiscal crisis (“The Path to Prosperity”). Paul earned a degree in economics and political science from Miami University in Ohio. Paul and his wife Janna live in Janesvil...
Sources: SSDI Fraud - http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/09/foxs-rove-falsely-claims-that-social-security-m/196357 SNAP Fraud - http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/19/fox-misleadingly-hypes-13-percent-fraud-in-food/195462 Job Openings - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/unemployed-job-opening_n_3568646.html Working Poor - http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2011.pdf Program Success - http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/06/2902831/social-safety-net-poverty-census/ Chart 1 - http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/05/3120481/poverty-rate-high-government-programs/ Chart 2 - http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2009/06/02/193160/the-war-on-poverty-was-an-enormous-success/ Social Security Success - http://www.nber.org/bah/summer04/w10466.html Clip from the Friday, January 10th 2014...
The U.S. government has spent trillions of dollars in recent decades attempting to combat poverty, yet the poverty rate has remained virtually unmoved. Why? As social economist Michael Tanner explains, the "War on Poverty" has both discouraged work and ensnared people in hardship. The "War on Poverty," it turns out, is actually a "War on Work." In five minutes, learn the truth about government's counterproductive efforts to eliminate poverty. You can support Prager University by clicking https://www.prageruniversity.com/donate.php Free videos are great, but to continue producing high-quality content, even small contributions are greater. Do you shop on Amazon? Now you can feel even better about it! Click https://smile.amazon.com and a percentage of every Amazon purchase will be donated t...
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson launched a broad platform to abolish American poverty. Fifty years later, Kwame Holman looks back on the historic legislation, while Jeffrey Brown talks to presidential historian Robert Dallek, Angela Glover Blackwell of PolicyLink and Glenn Hubbard of Columbia University about our progress.
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"Women have learned to remain single to receive benefits from the government, according to Fox Business host John Stossel, and they want handouts. Stossel said on Fox News' Fox & Friends that the "War on Poverty" only helped the nation's poor for five years. After that, progress stopped because people — particularly women — learned to depend on government handouts, he explained. "They taught women, 'better not have a man in your house because you'll get more money if there's no guy there,'" Stossel remarked...".* John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room) breaks it down on The Young Turks. Read more here from Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/09/war-on-poverty-taught-women-to-stay-single-for-handouts-says-foxs-john-stossel/ Who receives govern...
Without social safety net programs such as Social Security, food stamps, welfare, unemployment insurance, and others, millions more people would be in poverty, according to latest supplemental poverty measure report from the Census Bureau... Read More At: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/06/2902831/social-safety-net-poverty-census/ http://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security-keeps-22-million-americans-out-of-poverty-a-state-by-state-analysis Clip from The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live on Blog Talk Radio and Secular Talk Radio Monday - Friday 4:00 - 5:30 PM Eastern time zone. Check out our website - and become a member - at: http://www.SecularTalkRadio.com Listen to the Live Show or On Demand archive at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kylekulinski Follow on Twitter: http...
Two of the biggest jokes in our nation war on drugs and poverty.Jimmy Fallon truly one of funniest late night host since Jay Leno.#IAmBack
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B00VUUD650/book Normal0falsefalsefalsemicrosoftinternetexplorer4in January 1964, in his first State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson announced a declaration of unconditional war on poverty. By the end of the year the Economic Opportunity Act became law.the War on Poverty illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy. Zarefsky suggest that an important problem in the War on Poverty lay in its discourse. He assumes that language plays a central role in the formulation of social policy by shaping the context within which people view the social world. By terming the anti-poverty effort a war, President Johnson imparted significant symbolism to the effort: it called for total victory ...
U.S. military veteran Jake Harriman talks about fighting terrorism by ending extreme global poverty.
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http://www.democracynow.org - Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched his "war on poverty," which led to many of the federal and state initiatives low-income Americans rely on today -- Medicaid, Medicare, subsidized housing, Head Start, legal services, nutrition assistance, raising the minimum wage, and later, food stamps and Pell grants. Five decades later, many say another war on poverty is needed. We are joined by Peter Edelman, author of "So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America." A faculty director at the Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy at Georgetown University, Edelman was a top adviser to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a member of President Bill Clinton's administration until he resigned in protest after Clinton signed the 1...
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President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson's Poverty Tour through the Appalachian states in April and May of 1964. MP 791. Public domain. This film is from the LBJ Library moving picture collection created by the White House Naval Photographic Unit, aka the Navy Films. The films consist of monthly reports on the activities of President and Mrs. Johnson from 1963-1969. Below is an edited scene list for this film, from the LBJ Library audiovisual archives. We included useful shot descriptions where possible, although most have been cut for length. For more information please contact johnson.library@nara.gov. Air Force One in flight Band playing at airport, title up: "The Poverty Tours 1964"; fade to black LBJ's first Poverty Tour (accompanied by Lady Bird Johnson), 4/24/1964 LB...
Geoffrey Canada speaks about how he thinks society can win the war on poverty. He reiterates that his aim is to save the children in our country who aren't being raised and trained to be a part of the labor market. The new crisis in the United States is the increasing number of children that are not receiving a proper education.
President Johnson's State of the Union address, 1964.1/8/64. Index terms: Speeches; Congress; State of the Union Address LBJ Library video MP503 donated by CBS. No usage fees.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) spoke from the House floor on the 'War on Poverty." He read articles and talked about his experience as a judge in east Texas.
Abby Martin Breaks the Set on Dissent in Israel, Poverty in Pakistan and Failed US Policies on the Drug War LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to Maya Yechieli Wind, an Israeli activist and dissenter who advocates against Israeli aggression toward occupied Palestine. Abby then talks to Shoaib Sultan Khan, a pioneer of the Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) in Pakistan, about a grassroots strategy to fight poverty from the bottom up. BTS wraps up the show with a look at how Latin American countries are responding to the United States' failed drug war policies in light of marijuana legalization in two US states.
Abby Martin Breaks the Set on how Disney is working with oil and gas companies to indoctrinate Ohio's youth about the fracking industry. Abby then speaks to author and investigative journalist Jon Gold about the media's coverage of 9/11 first responder fraud meanwhile ignoring the true plight of the sick and dying first responders to get proper healthcare and Saudi Arabia's connection to the attack. Abby then speaks to Mimi German of Radcast.org about the potential scope of Fukushima's nuclear effect on the US Pacific coast and the disinformation campaign coming out of Japan regarding the levels of radiation. BTS wraps up the show with a look at the 50th anniversary of LBJ's 'War on Poverty,' a program that has had resounding success among America's elderly but has failed its youth. LIKE ...
Guests: Shailaja Chandra (Former Health Secretary, Government of India) ; Pamela Philipose (Development Journalist) ; Reetika Khera (Associate Professor) ; Vipul Mudgal (Project Director, CSDS) Anchor: Girish Nikam Air date: October 16, 2014