War On Poverty Not Over

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/06/opinion/coontz-war-on-poverty/index.html

In the CNN article “Why 'war on poverty' not over” by Stephanie Coontz , she depicts views of why and how the “war on poverty” doesn’t seem to be working as well as we thought, and  she also gives possible ways to fix it.  Firstly she gives background of the “War on Poverty” stating that the term was coined by Lyndon B. Jordan during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. Using a set of government programs designed to help struggling poor Americans, including measures of job training and improvement on housing. Further down Coontz gives percentages and facts to back up the claims of President Johnsons war on poverty, and though welly fought it is still losing 50 years later. As she goes on to further the claim of this lost war she hints at possibilities from other countries that the U.S. can take to fight the war in better and different ways than they have in the past.