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Community Action Agencies: Trouble From the Start in LBJ’s War on Poverty

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Community Action Agencies: Trouble From the Start in LBJ’s War on Poverty
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson reaches for a pen to sign the Food Stamp bill in Washington on Sept. 27, 1967. Bob Daugherty/AP Photo
Eric Felten
RealClearInvestigations
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Still prevalent in the Biden social-spending era, community action agencies date to the early 1960s, envisioned by the field marshals of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty as a way not just to identify and help the needy but to engage the poor in political activism.

Eric Felten is an investigative correspondent for RealClearInvestigations, reporting on government corruption. He is a former columnist for the Wall Street Journal and previously a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University. Felten has been published in Washingtonian, People, National Geographic Traveler, The Weekly Standard, Daily Beast, National Review, Spectator USA, and Reader’s Digest.
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