Video: The War on Poverty at 50: Its History and Legacy
Posted by University of Pennsylvania on October 13, 2014
This is to let you know that video of the full conference, “The War on Poverty at 50: Its History and Legacy,” is now available on our Poverty and Opportunity theme page, along with a link to a great overview of the conference written by panelist Merlin Chowkwanyun.
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/sspf/?q=events/2014-15
AS HISTORIAN MICHAEL KATZ (who passed away on August 23) noted in a new edition of his classic, The Undeserving Poor, “poverty is deeply rooted” in American life. “Before the twentieth century, the nation lacked both the economic surplus and policy tools to eradicate it.” With the inception of the War on Poverty fifty years ago, however, economic abundance and new methods of providing social services joined together to confront poverty and, “for about a decade, this combination, backed by popular support and political will, did spectacularly well.” Since then, “poverty has been allowed to grow again.”
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