Claim: "When LBJ started #WarOnPoverty, 14% of Americans lived in poverty. 50 yrs later, 14% still do. There's a #BetterWay."
Fact-check: Shimkus stretches on LBJ's War on Poverty
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Marc Filippino
Date published: 2016-07-28T00:00:00