Mcfarland & Company Poverty in american popular culture: essays on representations, beliefs and policy, paperback/wylie lenz

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In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an unconditional war on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans.

Two decades later, President Reagan drastically cut such programs, claiming that welfare encouraged dependency and famously quipping, Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

These opposing policy positions and the ideologies informing them have been well studied.

Here, the focus turns to the influence of .