Dana Massing can be reached at [email protected]. This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: German printmaker's work about war, poverty, grief to be exhibited at Erie Art Museum ...

When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America. But more than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later ...

Perhaps driven by his own humble beginnings, Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" as central to building the Great Society. In 1960, despite the prosperity of the times, almost one-quarter of all ...

As a reminder, on the eve of the war Israeli society was, according to official figures, one of the poorest in the OECD, with just under 21% of the population living below the poverty line.