By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh —— Bio and Archives--August 1, 2011
Liberal social critic Michael Harrington published in 1962 a book entitled, “The Other America,” describing those who were ill clothed and fed in the land of plenty, in a nation where obesity was a problem. Harrington proclaimed that there was a “cycle of poverty” that could be broken only by government action. His book profoundly influenced Lyndon Johnson who declared “War on Poverty” in 1964. Forty-seven years later, after we have spent billions of dollars on the poor, so-called downtrodden Americans, we have lost this war on poverty.
The government adopted an official definition of poverty. In 1964, those families who made less than $3,000 a year were poor. President Johnson’s goal was to get every American above the poverty line by 1976, the bicentennial of our country. The poverty line was adjusted every year to reflect changes in the cost of living.The Comment section of online publications is the new front in the ongoing Cancel Culture Battle.
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