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community-based antipoverty programs  

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  • COMMUNITY-BASED antipoverty programs in the U.S. were created in the 1960s to address the growing problems of urban decay and concentrated poverty. Most programs were initiated during President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Community-Based Antipoverty Programs]

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