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Ken Regal looks back on 50 years of the War on Poverty

January 8, 2014

President Johnson's poverty tour in 1964 via wikimedia commons/Cecil Saughton

January is poverty awareness monthJanuary is Poverty Awareness Month so we have put together a number of easy ways for you to take action this month to help fight poverty. They’ll include opportunities to learn more about poverty and hunger in our region and the U.S., and to spread the word.

TODAY’S ACTION:

President Johnson's poverty tour in 1964 via wikimedia commons/Cecil Saughton

President Johnson’s poverty tour in 1964

On January 8, 1964, fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, in a State of the Union address, declared war on poverty in this country.

In a blog post out today, our executive director Ken Regal looks back on the 50th Anniversary of this war and sees how far we’ve come, and how far we have left to go.

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