It has been said the US President Lyndon B. Johnson enacted multiple social programs. Under the slogan called the Great Society, Johnson helped the nation in the areas of civil rights and health care for the poor among other items.
Eleanor Roosevelt
LBJ had the Great Society program.
He had congress pass bills to address the problems. To pass the New Deal congress only took 38 minuets to pass it and send it to the president.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Roosevelt's program was known as the New Deal. It dealt with economic stimulation and social reform.
It has been said the US President Lyndon B. Johnson enacted multiple social programs. Under the slogan called the Great Society, Johnson helped the nation in the areas of civil rights and health care for the poor among other items.
Franklin d. roosevelt
Social Welfare
Welfare programs for the poor has been around since the 1800's. 1939 unemployment and AFDC programs were adopted to aide those out of work and their children. President Roosevelt began welfare help and establishing Social Security during the depression. In 1996 President Clinton signed a Reconcilition Act to encourage people to get off welfare and to get jobs.
It appears the idea began with President Franklin Roosevelt (D) in the 1930's. He also brought in Social Security.
Rather than eliminating services and cutting spending, it increased social welfare programs
One program that was one of Franklin D Roosevelt's greatest accomplishments was starting the Social Security System. This program helped to bring the suffering Americans out of the Great Depression.
"New Frontier"
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935. This legislation established the Social Security program in the United States.
No. Although President Roosevelt's mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt (1854-1941), would almost certainly have refused Social Security benefits, she was never eligible to receive them because neither she nor her husband paid into the trust. Roosevelt's father, James, was significantly older than his mother and died in 1900, long before the Great Depression, FDR's election to the Presidency, or the initiation of the Social Security Act of 1935. Additionally, both Sara Delano and James Roosevelt were born into wealthy families, lived a life of privilege, and would have been unlikely to accept money from a social welfare program under any circumstances.
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