. . "Lord ActonBy the Numbers: The War on Poverty Wednesday, January 8, 2014By Joe CarterFifty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson gave his 1964 State of the Union Speech, in which he launched the ???war on poverty.??? Within four years of that speech, the Johnson administration enacted a broad ran of programs, including the the Job Corps, Upward Bound, Head Start, the Neighborhood Youth Corps" . . . .