scholarly journals How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Bailey ◽  
Nicolas Duquette
Keyword(s):  
War On Poverty ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Office Of Economic Opportunity ◽  
Economics And Politics

scholarly journals How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity

2014 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha J. Bailey ◽  
Nicolas J. Duquette
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Johnson Administration ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Office Of Economic Opportunity ◽  
Economic Opportunity Act ◽  
Political Variables ◽  
Economics And Politics

This article presents a quantitative analysis of the geographic distribution of spending through the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA). Using newly assembled state- and county-level data, the results show that the Johnson administration directed funding in ways consistent with the War on Poverty's rhetoric of fighting poverty and racial discrimination: poorer areas and those with a greater share of nonwhite residents received systematically more funding. In contrast to New Deal spending, political variables explain very little of the variation in EOA funding. The smaller role of politics may help explain the strong backlash against the War on Poverty's programs.

Mississippi Republicans and the Politics of Poverty

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-175
Author(s):  
Emma J. Folwell
Keyword(s):  
Republican Party ◽  
Color Blindness ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Massive Resistance ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
Office Of Economic Opportunity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Chapter six explores the impact of the election of Richard Nixon on the war on poverty. It uncovers the conversations in the new Republican administration regarding the fate of the war on poverty, from questions over whether to rename the Office of Economic Opportunity to the appointment of Don Rumsfeld as OEO director. The chapter then moves on to discuss the way in which the evolution of massive resistance after 1965 and white opposition to the war on poverty shaped and contributed to emerging strands of conservative Republicanism in Mississippi. It places Mississippi’s “conservative color-blindness” in the broader context of the rise of the sunbelt South. Finally, the chapter illustrates the ways in which grassroots conservative groups—particularly women—were central to forging an ostensibly race neutral war against the war on poverty that was vital to the growing Mississippi Republican Party.

The American Poverty Programme 1969–71

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Holman
Keyword(s):  
War On Poverty ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Office Of Economic Opportunity ◽  
Access To Documents ◽  
American Poverty

Studies of the American ‘War on Poverty’ have concentrated on the period 1964–8 during which it attracted much attention due, firstly, to its optimistic claims to abolish poverty and, secondly, to the militant tactics used by some of its participants. Little note has been given to the years 1969–71, yet during this period significant changes occurred. In the Spring term of 1972 I was able to visit a number of the programme's projects and to study at the headquarters of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Having had access to documents with a limited circulation I am thus able to describe developments in the later period in a way which, to my knowledge, has not been published previously in Britain.

The war on poverty: between economics and politics

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amitai Etzioni
Keyword(s):  
War On Poverty ◽  
Economics And Politics
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