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War on Poverty still raging or largely over? Politicians weigh in
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President Lyndon Johnson holds the microphone to a power megaphone as he addresses part of a crowd of 5,000 who waited about three hours at the Atlanta Municipal Airport on May 8, 1964, for a chance to welcome their president to Georgia. At extreme right is Gov. Carl Sanders. The man holding his hat is veteran Georgia Congressman Carl Vinson. The president was on a tour of the Appalachian area in connection with his War on Poverty program. - photo by Associated Press file photo
In May, the United Nations published a report critical of the level of poverty in America. “The United States has the highest rate of income inequality among Western countries,” it said. Earlier this month, the White House’s Council on Economic Advisors took a rosier view.