We've been fighting poverty all wrong

[H2O Man]

14. Thank you.

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LBJ's "war on poverty" speech -- as it came to be known -- came as his first State of the Union speech. It promised a nationally backed, community based effort. To this day, I think it had great promise. Years later, commenting on how it helped his life, two-time heavyweight champion said, "That was back when our country cared about poverty."

Alas, a few months after Big George became famous for holding the American flag in the ring after winning the Olympics in Mexico, Nixon was elected. The "war on poverty" became a centralized, bureaucratic mess, sure to fail. (Well, fail for those it was intended to help. Others made money off investments in poverty.)