The War On Poverty

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-j-samuelson-how-we-won--and-lost--the-war-on-poverty/2014/01/12/9bf4696e-7a24-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html

In the article "How we won — and lost — the War on Poverty" by Robert J. Samuelson talk about his opinion on the War on Poverty started by president Lyndon B. Johnson. The article was published by The Washington Post on January 12th, 2014 making it a fairly recent article. In the article, Samuelson uses fairly formal language. Not necessarily academic language, but not conversational language either. He uses statistics to support his findings, ensuring that what he is saying can be backed up. Now, he is an opinion writer for the newspaper, so this informs us that it does have a bias. Throughout the article he argues for both sides on poverty: the people who support the funding for it, and the ones who don't. In the end he ends up criticizing the government for the lack of progress and that shows his bias on the subject, as well.