On the recordMarch 13, 1967
It was years after Jacob Riis spoke before Americans realized that poverty was an urgent public dilemma from which the only escape was to change the basic conditions of human life.
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presidency.ucsb.eduLyndon Johnson: “It was years after Jacob Riis spoke before Americans realized that poverty was an urgent public dilemma from which the…”
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Special Message to the Congress: America's Unfinished Business, Urban and Rural Poverty
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