50 Years After LBJ’s "War on Poverty," a Call for a New Fight Against 21st Century Inequality | Democracy Now!

50 Years After LBJ’s "War on Poverty," a Call for a New Fight Against 21st Century Inequality | Democracy Now!

"We’ve been swimming upstream in an economy that’s changed radically since 1968, when President Johnson left office," says Peter Edelman of Georgetown University. "We still have 46 million people in poverty, which is terrible. And that is so significantly because of our economy — because of the structural changes due to globalization and technology."