Data Shows Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty an Abject Failure

In his first State of the Union address in January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress to declare an "unconditional war on poverty" and to use government "not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it'.

54 years later, data shows that Johnson's war on poverty has made the economic situation far worse for low-income Americans and made poverty far worse than before the Great Society legislation was passed.