During his 1964 State of the Union address, former President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an unconditional war on poverty. While this national effort did reduce poverty, it didn’t go far enough. Still today, poverty persists. Americans are working two or three jobs and still struggled to make ends meet. In 2022, the United States saw the largest ever one-year increase in the poverty rate, with 12.4 percent of Americans living in poverty as compared to 7.8 percent in 2021. Child poverty was 16.3 percent in 2022.
The war on poverty did not fully work because Johnson’s approach was predicated […]
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