50 Years Of Fighting Poverty, And The Shriver Center’s Still In the Battle

By Carrie Shepherd
Sargent Shriver, then head of President Lyndon Johnson’s poverty program, talks with reporters after appearing before the House Education and Labor Committee on March 8, 1966 in Washington, D.C.
Sargent Shriver, then head of President Lyndon Johnson's poverty program, talks with reporters after appearing before the House Education and Labor Committee on March 8, 1966 in Washington, D.C. AP Photo/WJS
Sargent Shriver, then head of President Lyndon Johnson’s poverty program, talks with reporters after appearing before the House Education and Labor Committee on March 8, 1966 in Washington, D.C.
Sargent Shriver, then head of President Lyndon Johnson's poverty program, talks with reporters after appearing before the House Education and Labor Committee on March 8, 1966 in Washington, D.C. AP Photo/WJS

50 Years Of Fighting Poverty, And The Shriver Center’s Still In the Battle

By Carrie Shepherd
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More than 50 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson tapped Sargent Shriver to lead a battle the country is still fighting: the war on poverty. He founded the Sargent Shriver Center on Poverty Law in 1967, and it remains a vital source in the fight for social, racial, and economic justice.

John Bouman is president of the Shriver Center and a longtime crusader for justice for the poor. He joins Morning Shift to talk about the current fight and what the center is doing on a local level to make an impact.