Talk:War on Poverty

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[edit] i'll do it...later

hey. i wrote my senior seminar paper on the the war on poverty, and i think i am competent to revise/re-write this article. umm, i'll do it when i'm done with my masters thesis (hopefully by august. 24.86.215.144 20:18, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk prior to mid-2005

Deleted a small sentence that was slapped onto the end after the Stub that said "The War on Poverty was important". Kade 22:54, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This article reads like poorly written conservative propaganda. No mention is made of the successes or even of the attempts to reduce poverty in the United States. The Campaign Results section needs work. The Cato Institute should not be linked here. DirectorStratton 19:36, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Needs review by a competent authority

I don't believe this article conveys the true spirit of the War on Poverty. The idea was to get people off of welfare through job training programs and attracting businesses to the center cities; it thus has a lot in common with the 1996 act. It failed primarily because it was set up to work independently of the existing power structure, and thus stepped on political toes.

Please feel free to add to/rewrite this article. Wikipedia:Be Bold! DirectorStratton 01:31, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] This is one of the weaker articles I have found

I would tend to agree that this article has a horrendous conservative slant. The entire article seems to be written as a conservative critique, and provides very little information as to the actual substance of the war on poverty itself. More depressing is the lack of any kind of historical or political context information. Unfortunately, if I had the information to offer corrections myself I would not have accessed this article in the first place. I sincerely hope that someone with the proper information will devote their attention to this article in the very near future. In the mean time, I will attempt to research the issue and offer what I feel to be the most solid information regarding it as I pursue graduate work in political science. Please could someone in 'the know' save this poor wayward article?

regards 66.190.68.29 03:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)cfoster (caseyfoster05@gmail.com)

[edit] Why Conservative?

I always thought that LBJ was a Democrat, and opposed to conservatism. It also took Ronald Reagan most of his presidency to dismantle it. To my mind, the War on Poverty was well intentioned and was also applauded by many Socialists. As the article states, poverty levels were dramtically affected by the these measures. This is an important article. So can we fix it up and then remove the POV alert? Wallie 13:04, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

You completely missed his point. Yes, the War on Poverty is generally considered a triumph for liberals. What Foster was trying to say was this topic is being presented with a severe conservative bias, and I totally agree. The arguments and citations under the criticism section are generally of low quality, and I had to completely delete one of them. I thought about deleting the Anderson argument, as the reference is basically a huge ad hominem attack against Paul Krugman, a Princeton University Professor in Economics. The part of his argument mentioned in this entry is probably his strongest evidence, which is pretty sad, since it's purely anecdotal evidence selected from his own personal experience. Is there some Wikipedia standard on the quality of cited material? If so, that whole criticism should be deleted. Danielx (talk) 01:38, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Please feel free to add to/rewrite this article. Wikipedia:Be Bold! DirectorStratton 03:41, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Revision December 2005

Well, I'm certainly no competent authority, but I think the article should at least follow this structure: (1) Intro: defining WOP and giving context of its place in American history (2) Background - poverty in US at the time, possibly also priorities of Johnson Admin at the time (3) Administration of the WOP and effects, if possible, (4) Criticism, (5) References/Sources. Kaisershatner 20:03, 5 December 2005 (UTC)..


[edit] This is awful

Okay, I was the one who wrote above that he did his senior seminar paper on the War on Poverty. I still haven't come over here and written this thing. Umm. I'll do it later? Zweifel 02:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I'll do it now. I'm going to cut and paste a lot of my paper into Wikipedia, and remove all the stupid citations and stuff.
What I am worried about is violating the WP:NOR policy. Look, I got an A on this paper at a good school, and in many ways it's based on others' research. I've just synthesized a lot of it and added a lot of quotes from Johnson and others. Second, going through and formatting my FIFTY FOUR footnotes seems oppressive. I will take out my "analysis and conclusion" section because, even though my conclusions are a tad obvious, they still are distinctly original research. I will put my bibliography at the end.
Finally, I only really analyzed the topic to 1968. Some other time I could go back to Lemann and write up some thing for Nixon et al., but not now. Someone else has to do it.Zweifel 02:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Gah! This is goiing to take forever. I reverted it and put what I had written on my userpage User:Zweifel/War_on_Poverty. I'll do it when I get home. Maybe. Zweifel 03:35, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] developemntgateway.org external link

This link: War on Poverty Resources

Was added by an editor whose only contributions have been to promote World Bank Group organizations (The Development Gateway Foundation was started by the World Bank). We have recently uncovered significant edits promoting this group of organizations (see this WikiProject Spam discussion). In the interest of our neutral point of view policy and conflict of interest guideline I've moved the link here for other editors to consider. Thanks. -- Siobhan Hansa 13:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)