Sherline: Pushing Poverty

By Harris R. Sherline
February 9, 2011 11:24 am

What image comes to your mind when you hear the word poverty? Someone who looks like a bum, unkempt and lazy, living off the taxpayers? Or a simple, hard-working individual or family, struggling to make ends meet, just trying to get along? Or, all of the above?

Poverty statistics have always troubled me. Mostly, I think, because they seem to include too large a percentage of the population, and the percentage never seems to change. If anything, it seems to get bigger.

When President Lyndon Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty in Americaâ€