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Volume 20, Issue 1 (2004) The War on Poverty: Unfinished Business


This issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy evokes memories of a time when all things seemed possible in America and the elimination of poverty in all its guises was within the grasp of imaginative policy, committed government, and public consensus. In July 1965, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed his War on Poverty “not as a struggle simply to support people, to make them dependent on the generosity of others [but] to give people a chance. It is an effort to allow them to develop and use their capacities . . . so that they can share, as others share, in the promise of this nation.” He called for a war, “Not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it, and above all to eliminate it.”

Front Matter

Editor's Notes

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Editor's Note
Padraig O'Malley

Articles

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Foreword
Elaine Werby and Donna Haig Friedman

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Essay on Community
Hubie Jones

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Child Care: Four Decades of Growth and Change
Bruce Hershfield and John Sciamanna

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The Empty Promise
Elaine Werby

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Challenges to Multiculturalism
Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

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A Portrait of Asian Americans in Metro Boston
Paul Watanabe, Michael Liu, and Shauna Lo

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Ideas of Reform: Like Buddhist Souls
Peter Marris and Martin Rein

Back Matter

Editors

Editor
Padraig O'Malley
Guest Co-editor
Elaine Werby
Guest Co-editor
Donna Haig Friedman
Managing Editor
Patricia Peterson