Abstract

Poverty's Second Generation

The article presents information on poverty in the U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson's "War against Poverty" has been passed by Congress, one of the nation's poverty pockets which is waiting to see if the war ever reaches it is the Bootheel of Missouri. If and when it does come, Johnson's program will find the southwest tip of Missouri a rugged test of its depth and perseverance. Appalachia got most of the publicity in the campaign to pass the President's bill. All ,the present talk about poverty comes many years rafter the fact, so far as the Bootheel is concerned. The type of people who are poor there now were poor before and during the depression and have stayed poor through the war economy boom up to the present. While politicians and economists debate over the proper level of unemployment, farm income or the cost of living, the Bootheel's poor remain unchanged.