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Affirmative action is under attack not because it has failed but because it has succeeded , " he said.The war on poverty , he said , has been replaced by a war on the poor while both Bush administrations have supported tax cuts for the wealthy that have cut dozens of programs aimed at helping the disenfranchised . But what about the little guy , the small religious institution , who is in the middle of the battle on the war on poverty , who is already putting together an army of fighting these kinds of problems in our inner cities , in our rural areas ? But it could also come as acts of commission , as direct violence , as war on the poor rather than as war on poverty , but by economic , not by military / secret police means . ( 1 ) As part of the Great War on poverty , begun by the Johnson administration in the 1960 's , the government 's goal was to reduce the number of poor , and the effects of poverty on American society . As part of President Lyndon B. Johnson 's " War on Poverty , " ESEA appropriated approximately $ 2 billion in its initial year to help states improve educational opportunities for the underclass .