Talk:War on poverty

message: hey.  i wrote my senior seminar paper on the the war on poverty, and i think i am competent to revise/re-write this article.  umm, i'll do it when i'm done with my masters thesis (hopefully by august.  24.86.215.144 20:18, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: i'll do it...later

message: Deleted a small sentence that was slapped onto the end after the Stub that said "The War on Poverty was important".   Kade 22:54, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Talk prior to mid-2005

message: I would tend to agree that this article has a horrendous conservative slant.  The entire article seems to be written as a conservative critique, and provides very little information as to the actual substance of the war on poverty itself.  More depressing is the lack of any kind of historical or political context information.  Unfortunately, if I had the information to offer corrections myself I would not have accessed this article in the first place.  I sincerely hope that someone with the proper information will devote their attention to this article in the very near future.  In the mean time, I will attempt to research the issue and offer what I feel to be the most solid information regarding it as I pursue graduate work in political science.  Please could someone in 'the know' save this poor wayward article?
regards
66.190.68.29 03:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is one of the weaker articles I have found 

message: I always thought that LBJ was a Democrat, and opposed to conservatism. It also took Ronald Reagan most of his presidency to dismantle it. To my mind, the War on Poverty was well intentioned and was also applauded by many Socialists. As the article states, poverty levels were dramtically affected by the these measures. This is an important article. So can we fix it up and then remove the POV alert? Wallie 13:04, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Why Conservative?

message: Well, I'm certainly no competent authority, but I think the article should at least follow this structure:  (1) Intro: defining WOP and giving context of its place in American history (2) Background - poverty in US at the time, possibly also priorities of Johnson Admin at the time (3) Administration of the WOP and effects, if possible, (4) Criticism, (5) References/Sources. Kaisershatner 20:03, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Revision December 2005

message: This link: War on Poverty Resources
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thread_title:  developemntgateway.org external link 

message: I didn't read the entire article yet but I notice it refers to the War on Poverty in the past tense its not over--209.181.16.93 (talk) 16:34, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Over 

message: The War on Poverty is alive and well at one of the richest museums in America in 2013, where The president of the Peabody Essex Museum Dan Monroe makes $578,254.00 a year with full benefits while all the guards are part time with no benefits making $9.00 an hour. In 2011, the Total revenue of the Peabody Essex Museum was $53,044,354 & the  Total Functional Expenses were $33,021,331 leaving a $20,000,000 spread to pay more than a poverty wage to the security guards, gift shop retail clerks, ticket sellers, catering staff, the Building Maintenance department & janitors  of the Peabody Essex Museum.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.63.254.80 (talk) 13:34, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't spam this onto multiple pages and don't use WP as a public forum.  The source you are using is not a reliable source for the presenation you are making.  We are not allowed to perform original research on WP.  Arzel (talk) 15:23, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Peabody Essex Museum]] 

message: In 2001, the average wage for a Walmart Sales Clerk was $8.23 per hour, or $13,861 a year, while the federal poverty line for a family of three was $14,630.Bianco, Anthony; Zellner, Wendy. "Is Walmart Too Powerful?" Business Week. October 6, 2003. Retrieved on September 29, 2007. Walmart founder Sam Walton once said, "I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment."
:This is very old information.  What is the relavence here?  Arzel (talk) 15:24, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:   [[Walmart]] 

message: Just wondering...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.102.26.149 (talk) 20:17, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something to do with negative income tax? 

message: While I agree with many of the criticisms, I have to say that the extensive nature of the criticism puts this past WP:NPOV.  Criticism should always be a small portion of an article, because it's essentially others' reactions to the article's subject, rather than being part of the subject itself.  When nearly half of the article is criticism or responses thereto, the article's giving undue weight to controversy; let's reduce the controversy/criticism to a proportional level until/unless the rest gets expanded substantially.  Nyttend (talk) 03:53, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What would you suggest removing, in specific? MilesMoney (talk) 23:27, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV tag 

message: We need a secondary source that declares that Ryan made corrections to the original document. We can't use a primary source for that claim, as it would violate WP:NOR -  Cwobeel (talk) 17:41, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ryan's corrections to the document 

message: "...Conservative claims that the OEO poverty programs were nothing but a waste of money are preposterous ... Eleven of the 12 programs that OEO launched in the mid-'60s are alive, well and funded at an annual rate exceeding $10 billion; apparently legislators believe they're still working."
So we're winning the War on Poverty because Congress continues to fund it?  Or the poverty programs are not a waste of money because Congress continues to fund it?
So we were winning the war in Vietnam for many years, because Congress continued to fund it for all of those years, and we lost only because we quit funding the war.  And it wasn't a waste of money.
In fact, following the logic in the quote, anything Congress has continued to fund over a period of time has been money well spent. Like the war in Iraq.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.184.56.35 (talk) 19:07, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is anyone embarrassed by the inclusion of this line in the article? 

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message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:War on Cancer which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 22:17, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: Here is the n-gram showing that upper-casing of the title is correct. Randy Kryn (talk) 01:04, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: N-gram shows upper-cased name

message: Here is an example of something that should not be added to the article. jp×g 01:25, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military conflict infobox. 

message: — Assignment last updated by Shakaigaku Obasan (talk) 00:32, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Gender Welfare and Poverty

message: I would like to add to this Wikipedia article on the war on poverty. I would like to provide more information about the implications of the war on poverty on modern policies and safety nets. I would also like to provide more historical context for what inspired the war on poverty. I’m interested in investigating how Johnson’s legislation addressed the multifaceted issues of American poverty and whether his economic policies addressed disadvantaged groups equally. I've come up with 10 citations I would like to add to the content of this article--these are listed on my user page. Efloden (talk) 01:44, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities Assignment