The public-private hybrid system of service provision originated with liberal reformers in the early 1960s. The Ford Foundation piloted several programs that used community-based nonprofits to deliver services and benefits to urban residents. Democratic Presidents John Kennedy and then especially Lyndon Johnson picked up on and sought to embed these approaches into federal policies. They formed the backbone of Johnson’s War on Poverty and his expansive push for a Great Society through initiatives like Head Start, VISTA, Job Corps, and community action programs.
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In Appalachia, Poverty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder by [[Pam Fessler]] on 2014-01-18
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Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson paid a visit to Appalachia and sat on therough-hewn porch of a jobless sawmill worker surrounded by children withsmall clothes and big teeth.
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, greet Tom Fletcher's family in Inez, Ky., in 1964. Fletcher was an unemployed saw mill worker with eight children.<br /> Bettman/Corbis via https://www.npr.org/2014/01/18/263629452/in-appalachia-poverty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder
Poverty Tours: <br /> - https://texasarchive.org/2010_00054
Compare also with: - https://hypothes.is/a/ksOQmPaAEe61H7vM8pMhcg<br /> Poverty in Rural America, 1965. http://archive.org/details/0223PovertyInRuralAmerica.<br /> which was mentioned in Isenberg's White Trash (2016)
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Desmond, Matthew. Poverty, by America. 1st ed. New York: Crown, 2023. https://amzn.to/40Aqzlp
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¹¹ For you al-ways have the poor with you, but you will notalways have me.
Said in the context of his pending crucifixion, with respect to a woman who had poured expensive ointment on Jesus.
This is an interesting proposition in this passage with respect to lots of what he'd said about the poor in the past. See also the Beatitudes
relationship to the idea of "Waging war on poverty, but not on the poor"?
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The 1960s were a period of time when poverty in theUnited States was cut in half. This should be seen as a major economic ac-complishment. The War on Poverty played an important role in this decline.It demonstrated that the nation’s poverty is not immovable and that genuineprogress is possible with a concerted effort by the government and a growingeconomy.
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