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White House, "Chance for Peace" Speech - Dwight Eisenhower, Eisenhower Presidential Library, U.S. Embassy, History.com, May 29, 1959

The Chance for Peace speech, also known as the Cross of Iron speech, was an address given by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 16, 1953,…

Tags: Arms Spending, Defense, Eisenhower, Poverty, Priorities, Public Needs

First photo - UNICEF. Second Photo - UNICEF/UNI161865/Holt, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), UNICEF, Second photo - 2015.

UNICEF promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child, in everything it does. Together with its partners, it works in 190 countries and territories…

Tags: Adolescence, Child Welfare, Children, Life-Cycle, Poverty, UNICEF, United Nations

Detroit Publishing Company (collection accessed through Library of Congress), Remember the Poor: A Salvation Army Christmas Box, Library of Congress, 1903

Signs like these accompanied the early Salvation Army Kettles. The words "Keep the Pot Boiling" encouraged passers-by to make a contribution, assuring…

Tags: Anti-Poverty, Christmas, Kettle, Poverty, Salvation Army, San Francisco

FDR Library & Museum, Soup Kitchen Line, FDR Library & Museum, 1936

This photo shows a line of men waiting in line at a soup ktichen during the Great Depression.

The Great Depression was triggered by an…

Tags: 1940s, Great Depression, Hunger, Poverty, Soup Kitchen, Unemployment, Volunteerism

J.E. Purdy, Millicent (Wilson) Hearts, Philanthropist, Library of Congress, 1906

Millicent Hearst (1882 - 1974) is best known for founding the Free Milk Fund for Babies in 1921. For decades, it helped provide milk to the poor…

Tags: Disability., Millicent Hearst, Philanthropy, Poverty, War, Women

US Aid, US AID - From the American People, US AID, None

"There is no escaping our obligations: our moral obligations as a wise leader and good neighbor in the interdependent community of free nations – our…

Tags: Development, International, Philanthropy, Poverty, US AID