Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan argued that the War on Poverty has “failed” in an interview with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams as part of the network's "In Plain Sight" poverty reporting project, commemorating Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty.
The event, held Thursday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., marked the one-year anniversary of NBC News’ In Plain Sight reporting initiative, and the 50th anniversary of LBJ's declaration of "war on poverty."
