Time, April 12, 2016: Why Bernie Sanders Is Talking About Poverty
“Fighting poverty has occasionally been at the forefront of Democratic politics. President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty in 1964, New York Senator Robert Kennedy ran for President on the issue in 1968, and North Carolina Senator John Edwards made it a centerpiece of his national campaign in 2008. But in recent years, many Democratic candidates have chosen to blur the lines between the impoverished and middle-class Americans.”