The out-of-wedlock birth rate among African Americans today is 73%, three times  higher than it was prior to the War on Poverty. Children ... When President  Lyndon Johnson in 1964 launched the so-called War on Poverty, which enacted  an unprecedented amount of antipoverty legislation and added many new layers  to the ...
May 9, 2014 ... May 22, 2014, marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's  “Great Society” address, delivered at the spring commencement for the ....  Nevertheless, the share of overall personal income from social welfare transfers  jumped from 5.8 percent in 1964 to 17.0 percent in 2013; more than ...
The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United  States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on  Wednesday, January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in  response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent. The speech led  the ...
Fifty years have passed since President Johnson first declared a War on Poverty  in his 1964 State of the Union ... the Johnson and Nixon administrations, the War  on Poverty—and the Great Society more broadly—laid the ... that trend continues  today: The poverty rate fell from 26 percent in 1967 to 16 percent in 2012 when ...
Sep 14, 2015 ... On New Year's Eve, 1964, Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan  assembled his staff in his office to announce that they were going to help him ...  On June 4, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson gave a major address at Howard  University based largely on the Moynihan Report and co-written by ...
The percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.