War on Poverty

http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/01/08/obama-statement-war-on-poverty-lyndon-johnson/4370259/

In "Obama: More Work Remains in ‘War on Poverty’” by David Jackson of USA Today explains President Obama’s take on LBJ’s “War on Poverty” address. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty and introduced initiatives designs to improve the education, health, skills, jobs, and access to economic resources of those struggling to make ends meet. This report has some of the key steps the Obama Administration has taken to further increase opportunity and economic security by improving key programs while ensuring greater efficiency and integrity. These steps prevented millions of hardworking Americans from slipping into poverty during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. As Lyndon B. Johnson says “Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope—some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity." This quote gives me a clear definition of war on poverty, and it is that too many Americans have little to nothing and all they have is their hope to keep them going. These people living like this are the definition of war on poverty and we need to give them a chance at a life with no struggle, and let them have their chance to see that all their hope was for nothing.