Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson declared a national 'war on poverty,' the lives of low-income Americans have improved on many fronts even as the US faces persistent challenges, led by the prevalence of single-parent households.
Poverty is reduced but far from vanquished as a reality in the lives of American citizens.
That is borne out not only by statistics, but also by a political landscape today that features another Democratic president (named Obama rather than Johnson) arguing that new policies - from a minimum-wage hike to 'promise zones' - are needed to bolster the fortunes of low-income Americans.
Here's a look at America then and now, to compare how far the nation has come, and how far it has to go.
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - Rating: 4.5
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