{"id":10221,"date":"2011-09-29T15:08:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10221"},"modified":"2011-09-29T13:53:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T17:53:28","slug":"rev-jackson-to-call-for-commission-on-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10221","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Jackson To Call For Commission  On Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reverend Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow Push Coalition, has decided to follow in former <strong>President Lyndon B. Johnsons<\/strong> sentiment to fight the &#8220;War on Poverty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jackson<\/strong>, says that <strong>Johnson<\/strong> introduced Medicare, Medicaid, and the Trial Nutrition Act. He says that we have an abundant agriculture system. <strong>Jackson<\/strong> believes, &#8220;Every child in school should have reading glasses, hearing assistance and dental care right now. A veteran returning home should have a place to stay and medicine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He talks about de-racializing poverty, to not focus on certain races or nationalities but poverty as a whole. <strong>Jackson<\/strong> believes that this goal is attainable: &#8220;If we can bailout banks if we can reconstruct Iran and Afghanistan then we can do a war on poverty that works.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverend Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow Push Coalition, has decided to follow in former President Lyndon B. Johnsons sentiment to fight the &#8220;War on Poverty.&#8221; Jackson, says that Johnson introduced Medicare, Medicaid, and the Trial Nutrition Act. He says that we have an abundant agriculture system. Jackson believes, &#8220;Every child in school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}