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How We Once Came to Fight a War on Poverty

The fifty-year anniversary of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s declaration of a war on poverty has sparked a new round of right-wing

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The Changing Faces of Poverty and Inequality: How We Once Came to Fight a War on Poverty

Why we waged a war on poverty and what we won.

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The Other Campaign: Who Gets to Vote?

As unions gear up for the election of 2012, they should take a lesson from the electoral contests of 2008 and 2010.

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