Poverty/Privilege Chapter 5: Rhetoric

Chapter 5: Introductory Visual

• The Pew Center for Research uses this photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson in a researched article updating the War on Poverty, “Who’s Poor in America? 50 Years into the ‘War on Poverty,’ a Data Portrait” (January 13, 2014).

Welfare Queen Images

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s State of the Union Address Declaring a War on Poverty

• Written text of State of the Union Speech
• Audio/Visual text of the State of the Union Speech

Millennium Development Goals

• MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

Forging Connections

• www.Livingonone.org and 40daysinorange.wordpress.org  (“An Orange Jumpsuite for Lent,” NYT article)

Katherine Boo

• NDTV Interview about Behind the Beautiful Forevers and poverty reporting