{"title":"A Pyrrhic Victory","authors":"Romain D. Huret","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9780801450488.003.0007","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter revises the traditional account of the War on poverty by showing that it was for poverty experts a Pyrrhic Victory. They were disappointed by the presidential decision of turning to Community Action Programs as the sole solution to put an end to poverty.","PeriodicalId":392994,"journal":{"name":"The Experts' War on Poverty","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Experts' War on Poverty","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801450488.003.0007","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter revises the traditional account of the War on poverty by showing that it was for poverty experts a Pyrrhic Victory. They were disappointed by the presidential decision of turning to Community Action Programs as the sole solution to put an end to poverty.