The Great Society

The Great Society
The economy leading up to the year of 1964 was doing very well. Unemployment was below four percent Gross National Product was growing at approximately six percent. Inflation was less then three percent. The setting was ripe for the president to create “A War on Poverty.”
In the beginning of LBJ’s tenure as president he continued Kennedy’s work in developing programs to help society in many aspects. The programs that he devised were called the Great Society. Lyndon proposed “A War on Poverty” with the Economic Opportunity Act. The programs under the act consisted primarily of: the Job Corps; community action programs; volunteers against poverty; financial aid to low income families; and Medicare. Sub programs included racial injustice and education.
The Job Corps were created to help younger students to advance in careers who were unable to go to college for one reason or another. It developed the skills that they had and prepared ...