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...January 2001 Introduction Supposedly during the Regan years, a story circulated that Regan told on himself. "We declared war on poverty", the President said. "And poverty won!" A funny story perhaps, if it wasn't so true. Politicians will tell us that due to a strong economy, we are doing just fine. The statistics label that "wishful thinking," as we recognize that child poverty, according to Lichter (1997) is at a thirty year high. We may shake our heads, and look at the numbers, wondering how that can be, yet the gap between rich children and poor children is widening rather than decreasing. It might be easy to say that the initial research was not done correctly, or the changing nature of poverty distorts the true...