How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity
分析了1964年《经济机会法》资金的地理分布，发现约翰逊政府将更多资金投向贫困地区和少数族裔比例高的地区，政治因素影响较小，这或许解释了反贫困战争遭遇强烈反弹的原因。
This article presents a quantitative analysis of the geographic distribution of spending through the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA). Using newly assembled state- and county-level data, the results show that the Johnson administration directed funding in ways consistent with the War on Poverty's rhetoric of fighting poverty and racial discrimination: poorer areas and those with a greater share of nonwhite residents received systematically more funding. In contrast to New Deal spending, political variables explain very little of the variation in EOA funding. The smaller role of politics may help explain the strong backlash against the War on Poverty's programs.