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The War
on Poverty: A Progress Report (committee testimony from July 2013)
“The War on Poverty officially began in the United States on
January 8th, 1964 during President Lyndon Johnson’s first State of the Union
Address. On that day the President opened the initial salvo in a war that the
American people are still fighting forty-nine years later. When Johnson stated,
“This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty
in America” (1), he was setting into motion a series of social welfare initiatives
that have caused reverberations in American society and within the American
family that are still being felt today.”- Testimony of Eloise Anderson
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