In conclusion, this work will evaluate the legacies of the War on Poverty.
Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger’s collection, Legacies of the War on Poverty details what came to be of the WOP and how important or not their efforts still are. The contributors evaluate programs, policies, and lasting impact of decisions made during that time based on their successes after the Johnson era and in to today. Bailey’s opening essay is critical to this work’s colluding argument that the WOP was not a ‘failure’ as history often presumes because the complexity of poverty is not simple to quantify. The statistics and visuals in this collection prove that while poverty still exists, America’s poor has changed greatly and have better living standards than before Johnson.
Primary sources are the basis of evidence for this correlation between the War on Poverty programs and civil disobedience. Johnson’s official White House papers from his presidential library and Office of Economic Opportunity publications from National Archives II illustrated the status of national poverty, the solutions they crafted, and the response in the various regions. Original publications from the OEO in 1965 disseminate the basic information about President Johnson’s new …show more content…
The Preliminary Profile of the 1965 Poor United States compares poor populations across different geographic areas or OEO Regions. Northeast, Southeast, North Central, Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, Southwest, and Western regions are then compared across racial, age, education, and employment levels. By compartmentalizing poverty statistics into geographic regions, this report compares states for levels of poverty and to determine the demographics of the poor. From there, statistics can be cross-checked to analyze if these states implemented programs and whom they may have consequently aided based on these
Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger’s collection, Legacies of the War on Poverty details what came to be of the WOP and how important or not their efforts still are. The contributors evaluate programs, policies, and lasting impact of decisions made during that time based on their successes after the Johnson era and in to today. Bailey’s opening essay is critical to this work’s colluding argument that the WOP was not a ‘failure’ as history often presumes because the complexity of poverty is not simple to quantify. The statistics and visuals in this collection prove that while poverty still exists, America’s poor has changed greatly and have better living standards than before Johnson.
Primary sources are the basis of evidence for this correlation between the War on Poverty programs and civil disobedience. Johnson’s official White House papers from his presidential library and Office of Economic Opportunity publications from National Archives II illustrated the status of national poverty, the solutions they crafted, and the response in the various regions. Original publications from the OEO in 1965 disseminate the basic information about President Johnson’s new …show more content…
The Preliminary Profile of the 1965 Poor United States compares poor populations across different geographic areas or OEO Regions. Northeast, Southeast, North Central, Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, Southwest, and Western regions are then compared across racial, age, education, and employment levels. By compartmentalizing poverty statistics into geographic regions, this report compares states for levels of poverty and to determine the demographics of the poor. From there, statistics can be cross-checked to analyze if these states implemented programs and whom they may have consequently aided based on these