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Diane RobertsOctober 29, 2015

LBJ declared the War on Poverty; the GOP waged a War on Women; the state of Florida has never ceased its War on Nature. The latest front: Bears! How often have you come home from a hard day of flipping carcino-burgers at the local McWendyking’s, slaving away at the phosphate plant or working at the […]

Diane RobertsOctober 28, 2015

LBJ declared the War on Poverty; the GOP waged a War on Women; the state of Florida has never ceased its War on Nature. The latest front: Bears! How often have you come home from a hard day of flipping carcino-burgers at the local McWendyking’s, slaving away at the phosphate plant or working at the […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 29, 2015

Jeb Bush’s sluggish movement in the national polls betrays the refreshingly presidential-like behavior he has been exhibiting. In a campaign environment marked by shallow squabbling and impulsive barb-throwing, Bush’s recent statement about limiting governmental benefits demonstrates a serious and sorely needed focus on policy concerns. Speaking on September 24 in Mount Pleasant, S.C., Bush cautioned […]

Guest AuthorAugust 6, 2015

Usually, Republicans get a pat on the back for just being brave enough to speak at a black organization’s annual meeting or conference. So we must give Jeb Bush the obligatory props for deigning to speak to an overwhelmingly black crowd at the National Urban League recently. Unlike former GOP presidential nominee and Massachusetts Gov. […]

Mitch PerryMay 6, 2015

Jeb Bush says the key to lifting Baltimore from its decades-long torpor is the type of education reform that he practiced in Florida when he was governor from 1998 to 2006. In an op-ed in Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune, he uses the same language other conservatives have during the past two weeks, and longer — that […]

Guest AuthorJune 3, 2014

Republicans have just discovered poverty and income inequality — a remarkable revelation, considering they have caused so much of it. The Tea Party GOP has declared Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” a failure. And with the 2014 elections looming, following the advice of their pollsters and word-testers, Republicans are trying to remake themselves as sympathetic […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 26, 2014

Listening to all the punditry in the wake of the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty has led to one conclusion: Most of the common assumptions Americans have about poverty are dead wrong. Among them: – Most poor people are black. While the poverty rate among African Americans is more than double […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 14, 2014

I remember watching video during the war in Bosnia and thinking that I couldn’t tell difference between a Serb and a Croat. How can you fight a war when you don’t know the enemy? Of course those who were fighting did know the difference. But it strikes me that the people criticizing the poor and […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 8, 2014

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of The United States, must be spinning in his grave and cursing up a storm this week. You see, to mark the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s landmark ‘War On Poverty’, congressional conservatives like Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio are taking turns trying to discredit it. First came […]

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Diane Roberts: Watch out, you bears, and hold your water

Diane Roberts: Watch out, you bears, and hold your water

Sarah Maricle Ayers: Jeb Bush’s reservations about government freebies are a relief

Chris Timmons: Thanks for the visit, Jeb. Now go home

Jeb Bush says raising education standards is key to improving Baltimore

Stephen Goldstein: Republicans ‘discover’ how to end the poverty they created

Andrew Skerritt: Most assumptions about the poor are dead wrong

Gary Stein: Conservatives don’t know the enemy in War on Poverty

Daniel Tilson: The GOP’s impoverished anti-poverty platform