The Head Start Heist: A Familiar Pattern of Failure The Trump Administration's latest move to overhaul Head Start, the federal preschool program for low income children, is a chilling reminder of a failed approach to poverty reduction that has been tried and discredited in the past.
By targeting this successful program, President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon are following a playbook that has already proven disastrous.
The War on Poverty, launched by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, was a bold experiment in using government programs to address poverty and inequality.