Actually, no, the War on Poverty was not a failure

[KingOrfeo]

True, we still have poverty, and the whole thing might have been more effective if the Vietnam War had not drained the funding. Still, so far as it went, it was well worth doing.

Programs launched by Johnson through his Great Society initiative include:
Head Start Program
Higher Education Act of 1965
Job Corps
Samuel Jefferson Mason
Model Cities Program
NASA Art Program
Bilingual Education Act
Community Action Agencies
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
Elementary and Secondary Education
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
Office of Economic Opportunity
Teacher Corps
Project Follow Through
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Upward Bound

For years conservatives have attacked Johnson for this "failed" initiative, but poverty dropped from 20% when he took office to 12% when he left. It clearly worked among the black community with a drop from 55% in 1960 to 27% in 1968. It was also the last time the Gini coefficient was less than .400 (still high today for the West) in the United States.[2] Not exactly a "failure," if anything staunch success by a rational estimate, but conservatives will never see fact with these estimates.

See also.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

then why is your ass still on welfare?

 

[pointless]

sameul jefferson mason was a government program?