Today's moderator: Rick Badie
Rick Badie joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as an education reporter in 1997. A South Georgia native, he's covered the region's immigrant communities, was a feature obituary writer and opinion columnist for the AJC's Gwinnett edition.
Nelson Mandela said that poverty, like slavery and apartheid, was man-made and unnatural. Meanwhile, President Lyndon B. Johnson pledged a war 50 years ago to fight this nation's poverty. Today, we offer three perspectives — two regional (one here, the other here), and one national — on an issue that continues to endure.
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Today's columnists:
- War on Poverty continues by Bill Bolling
- War on Poverty failed us by J.D. Van Brink
- Free enterprise lifts the impoverished by Arthur Brooks
