America's New War on Poverty
Subtitle: A Reader for Action (Companion to the Public Television)
Publisher: Bay Books
Published: January 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780912333373
Subjects: United States; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; General; Poverty; Economic assistance, Domestic; Poor
First sentence: When Lyndon Johnson announced his poverty initiative in 1964, he spoke to a public that enjoyed unprecedented growth and prosperity - a public for whom the realization that there was poverty amidst this plenty was shocking.