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November 22, 1963

November 22, 1963. Lyndon Johnson Flower Girl Ad. Just Another Day in Paradise.

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November 22, 1963

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  1. November 22, 1963

  2. Lyndon Johnson Flower Girl Ad

  3. Just Another Day in Paradise

  4. A stream of people walk down a street in Camden, New Jersey, which according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is now the most impoverished city in the United States with nearly 32,000 of Camden's residents living below the poverty line. Click on picture to take the poverty quiz.

  5. “The Hidden Poor”

  6. “In our affluent society every American deserves to share in all opportunities afforded to you and I. We cannot allow the invisible poor, which makes up one fifth of our population, to remain hidden from the consciousness of America.” Lyndon Johnson 1964

  7. War on Poverty • Job Corps: work training and study program. • Community Action: plan to attack poverty in their own communities. • Volunteers: older people to help fight poverty. VISTA • Government Loans: incentives to employ the unemployed. • Office of Economic Opportunity: Coordinate and oversee these efforts.

  8. War on Poverty • Medicare: government health insurance for persons age 65 or older. • Medicaid: government health insurance for young persons. • Head Start: government pre-school programs • HUD: Department of Housing and Urban Development.

  9. Mr. Wendal by Arrested Development The War on Poverty began with President Lyndon Johnson's visit to Tom Fletcher's front porch in Martin County, Kentucky, in April 1964. Walter Bennett's photo for Time Magazine has become an icon of the '60s.

  10. Here have a dollar In fact no brotherman, here have two Two dollars means a snack for me, But it means a big deal to youBe strong, serve God only, Know that if you do, beautiful Heaven awaits That's the poem I wrote for the first time I saw a man with no clothes, no money, no plate Mr. Wendal, that's his name. No one ever knew his name 'cuz he's a no one. Never thought twice about spending on an old bum Until I had the chance to really get to know oneNow that I know 'em, to give him money isn't charity He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some shoes And to think blacks spend all their money on big colleges Still most of y’all come out confusedGo ahead Mr. Wendal Go ahead Mr. WendalMr. Wendal has freedom A free that you and I think is dumb Free to be without the worries of a quick to diss society For Mr. Wendal's a bum Mr. Wendal

  11. His only worries are sickness and occasional harassment By the police and their chase Uncivilized we call him but I just saw him Eat off the food we wasteCivilization, are we really civilized? Yes or no, who are we to judge When thousands of innocent man could be brutally enslaved And killed over a racist grudgeMr. Wendal has tried to warn us about our ways But we don't hear him talk It's not his fault when we're goin' too far and we got too far‘ Cuz on him we walkMr. Wendal, a man, a human in flesh but not by law I feed you dignity to stand with pride Realize now that all in all we stand tall Go ahead Mr. WendalMr. WendalMr. WendalMr. Wendal Mr. Wendal by Arrested Development

  12. War on Poverty • Throwing $$ at a problem does not always solve it. • Bigger deficits, greater debt • Bureaucracy, larger government (red tape) • Misuse of funds Stossel war on Poverty

  13. War on Poverty % of poor in the United States

  14. 17,572,929,038,610.44 314,721,775 $55,289.01

  15. For most of the Nation’s history, deficits were the result of either wars or recessions. • Wars necessitated major increases in military spending. • Recessions reduced Federal tax revenues from businesses and individuals.

  16. History of Deficit Spending

  17. Timeline of Debt

  18. Poverty in America Frontline: Poor Kids

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