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LBJ Declared War on Poverty—Vietnam Killed It On January 8, 1964, President Johnson declared "unconditional war on poverty." The Economic Opportunity Act created Head Start, VISTA, Job Corps, and Community Action Programs that gave poor communities—especially Black Americans—unprecedented power to challenge inequality. Poverty dropped from 20% to 11% by 1973. But Vietnam drained the funding. Dr. King said it was "shot down on the battlefields." By the late '70s, the program was dismantled. Yet i
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