The Public Interest

What war and which poverty?

Earl Raab

Spring 1966

The most important thing to understand about the Administration’s anti-poverty program is that it is not primarily directed against poverty. It is most certainly not anything like a “war on poverty.” The failure to notice this has led to massive confusion, and in some cases has turned a supposed war against poverty into an actual civil war about poverty. 

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