Only 11% of Americans were below the poverty line well into Nixon's administration because of the Great Society. Another benefit of the program was the creation of Medicaid and Medicare which are very important programs in America today. It also achieved the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which did many important things on its own. However it did upset many of the people living in the southern state. Among these is outlawing voter registration segregation, segregation in schools, and also in places of employment. Because of the Civil Rights Act, equality was given in basically anything dealing with outlawing private discrimination in public places.
It narrowed the economic gap between whites and blacks.
The Great Society led to dramatic improvements in health and welfare for the elderly and poor.
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to end poverty and racial injustice in america
The Great Society was a set of social reforms initiated primarily by President Lyndon Johnson aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice and thus the creation of a Great Society.
Great Society
Medicare, medicaid, war on poverty
Lyndon Johnson was the President who started the Great Society progams.
Gave federal government to much power
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The Great Society
LBJ had the Great Society program.
Lyndon Johnson was the President who started the Great Society programs. The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
president johnson cut back on great society programs to help pay for the war
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