Fighting Poverty After Reagan.

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      For anyone concerned with poverty in the United States, the best thing about the Reagan era is that it is over. Nevertheless, the eight-year ordeal taught antipoverty groups more than a few lessons about advocacy, leaving them stronger, better organized and with a well-defined agenda that is already getting attention from the U.S. President George Bush Administration. Not that this toughened stance should be confused with any improvement in the lives of the disadvantaged. More than 32.5 million people were poor in 1987, up 8 million from 1978. The number of families with children living in poverty rose 35 percent in those years, and the poverty rate of black children climbed to 45 percent.