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Christopher Jencks

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  • Lyndon Johnson campaigning in Illinois in 1964, the year he declared ‘war on poverty;’ Johnson signing an autograph for an elderly woman.

    The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?

    Four changes are especially important when we try to measure changes in the poverty rate since 1964.
    by Christopher Jencks via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2015

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