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Cleveland, Ohio: President Obama comments on the 50th anniversary of 'The War on Poverty,' Black families headed by single mothers have the highest poverty rate at 48 percent, data show

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By Kathy Wray Coleman,  Editor-in-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  .    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) United States President Barack Obama K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press with  print  newspapers  in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio WASHINGTON, D.C.-Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the "War on Poverty" in America, the unofficial name given to federal legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union  address on January 8, 1964. That legislation is officially called the Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Office  of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to administer the local application of federal funds