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The history of antipoverty policy since the war on poverty began is one of significant policy changes. New programs were introduced and old programs were expanded; the emphasis of the federal budget shifted from military spending toward social welfare spending; the Office of Economic Opportunity was created and then dismantled; and all domestic policies came to be asked the question What Does It Do for the Poor? (Lampman 1974). The prevailing view at the outset of the war on poverty, expressed not only in President Johnson’s speeches, but in academic journals as well, was optimistic — government actions could solve the poverty problem if enough resources were focused on the task, and if the economy experienced stable economic growth.
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Danziger, S., Plotnick, R. (1980). The War on Income Poverty. In: Sommers, P.M. (eds) Welfare Reform in America. Middlebury Conference Series on Economic Issues. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7389-3_3
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