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LBJ’s Resume

Congressional Staffer Member of the House of Representatives U.S. Senator Majority Leader Vice-President. LBJ’s Resume. “There are tens of millions of Americans who are beyond the welfare state.

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LBJ’s Resume

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  1. Congressional Staffer Member of the House of Representatives U.S. Senator Majority Leader Vice-President LBJ’s Resume

  2. “There are tens of millions of Americans who are beyond the welfare state. Taken as a whole there is a culture of poverty…bad health, poor housing, low levels of aspiration, and high levels of mental distress. Twenty percent of a nation, some 32,000,000.” Michael Harrington, author of the Culture of Poverty 1962 War on Poverty

  3. The Great Society Programs

  4. “The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.” LBJ 1964 “The Great Society” • Medicare and Medicaid • Head Start • Department of Housing and Urban • Development (HUD) • Job Corps • Water Quality and Clean Air Acts • Highway Safety Act • Fair Packaging and Labeling Act • Corporation of Public Broadcasting (PBS)

  5. Civil Rights • (1964) Civil Rights Act – outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and jobs, increased federal power to prosecute civil rights abuses • (1964) 24th Amendment abolished the poll tax in federal elections

  6. Civil Rights • (1964) Voting Rights Act ended the practice of requiring voters to pass literacy tests and permitted the federal government to monitor voter registration. • (1964) Immigration Act – ended national-origins quotas established in 1924

  7. The Results

  8. The Results • The Great Society & the Warren Court greatly moved the U.S. to the political left. • The number of poor people fell 25 % of the population in 1962 to 11% in 1972 • The costs of funding for the Great Society programs contributed to a growing budget deficit, a problem that has continued for more than three decades.

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