Coontz,
Stephanie. "Why 'war on Poverty' Not over." CNN. Cable News
Network, 6 Jan. 2014. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.
<http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/06/opinion/coontz-war-on-poverty/index.html>.
In this article by Stephanie Coontz
she talks about how in his State of the Union address President Lyndon B.
Johnson declared "unconditional war on poverty." The years after that
was filled with all kinds of new reforms, like new health insurance, food
stamps, increased social security benefits, supported pregnant women and
infants, job programs for teenagers, and work study for college students. Then
the article goes on to talk about when Richard Nixon was President in the 1970’s.
He worked more on the food stamp program, added a cost of living to social security,
and also created programs for disabled adults and children. In 1988 when Ronald
Reagan said the war was over, and the “poverty won”. She says that poverty
would have been fixed even better if they would have not given up on the war on
poverty, but then she goes on to talk about how well the statistics has risen
and how much better people in poverty are doing so it is a bit of a contradiction.
She never really says where she got her information. She flops back and forth from poverty is and
is not a problem, and then back over to we are doing good as a county to we are
screwed. Then in the final paragraph she refers to how the UK fixed there child
poverty problem, I thought it was extremely random and kind of made me question
her credibility, because I felt like she just throw that in there to save her
article.
This article called everything you need to know about the war on poverty by Dylan Matthews, was found online on the Washington post’s website. The entire article is a breakdown of what the meaning of war on poverty is and how its transformed over the past few decades. We give a broad definition of what war on poverty is and how many president shave came in to make the change. In 1964 Lyndon Johnson came in to pass many different laws to change the issues and some have been successful and some have failed.
ReplyDeleteThis article was very useful because I was in the dark about what this term really meant and it put it into a format that really did make sense, some articles that are focused around this topic just give their opinions and I like that this give the straight facts of what has been going on over the years with war on poverty. Because these are hard facts from our past I feel as it is easy to tell it how it is and weather it affected us or not.
Matthews, Dylan. “Everything you need to know about the war on poverty.” The Washington Post. Wonkblog. 8 Jan 2014. Web. 29 Feb 2016.