A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on ...

In a curious coincidence, the inauguration of Donald Trump falls on a day we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King ...

When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America. But more than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later ...

"In the sixties we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won," Ronald Reagan said last year, in one of the one-sentence pronouncements he has sometimes made to the press while walking across the ...

This is the war on poverty. This war has no enlisted army, no emergency call-ups, no procurement budgets, no strategy, no goals, and no cabinet to debate operational plans or post-war policies.

Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine, spending billions on military equipment. Meanwhile, many Russians live in extreme ...

in almost 60 years. One other stop we need to make before we delve into a look back at the look back on the War on Poverty and its housing elements at its 50 th anniversary is a visit to the ...

In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 1/13/25, local leaders preview Action for a Better Community's ...

President Johnson took on the economy by waging a "war on poverty." "His vision was of helping the disadvantaged to help themselves," Robert Dallek says.

President Lyndon Johnson initiated the war on poverty with the U.S. rate around 19%. Today, the official poverty rate is ...