My research with collaborators digs deeper into the workings of specific War on Poverty programs, seeking evidence about ...

Head Start program directors and families are deeply concerned over a Trump administration proposal to cut its funding ...

Around that time, 32% of Black Americans lived below the poverty line, with a median income of about $24,000 in 1964. On the ...

It’s been largely lost in the cacophony over President Donald Trump’s tariffs and vendettas against universities, but ...

Head Start was founded by Lyndon B. Johnson as a part of the war on poverty. The White House's 2026 plan could cut all of the Head Start program's federal funds. Head Start program directors and ...

A group of U.S. senators that included the two from Michigan and one from Wisconsin have called on the federal Department of Health and Human Services to explain why five regional Head Start offices ...

Early Head Start, which President Lyndon B. Johnson launched in 1965 as part of his “War on Poverty.” In my case, Head Start wasn’t just an educational program, but a lifeline. It operated ...

We will see mortality rates rise.” The first community health center opened in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war on poverty.” Now, the state's centers treat 762,000 people ...

The idea went back to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, a vision of how the government could create a more equitable country. Waits and Smith soon saw what that could mean.

The founding belief behind Head Start, a pillar of Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 war on poverty, was that providing early learning and nutrition to low-income children could raise them out of poverty as ...

The 60-year-old program, with its mission to get low-income children ready for school, dates to the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's War on Poverty. "I don't think they are looking at the ...