ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Much more basic housing - along with a higher minimum wage and guaranteed child care - would be part of a new war on poverty, as NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr explains.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: This is Daniel Schorr.
Federal anti-poverty programs of the past 50 years have been moderately successful, but they've failed to alleviate much extreme poverty in the United States. A new report released Wednesday by the Center for American Progress suggests new ways to halve the poverty rolls in the next decade.