PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE GREAT SOCIETY PROGRAM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The centerpiece of the war on poverty
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administers social programs covering disability, retirement, and survivors’ benefits
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preserves and promotes public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions for at least $250, 000; by identifying, monitoring and addressing risks to the deposit insurance funds; and by limiting the effect on the economy
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -This centerpiece legislation created the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to coordinate federal antipoverty initiatives and empower the poor to transform their own communities. The EOA also contained two radical provisions that facilitate our analysis.
Detailed explanation-2: -The forty programs established by the Act were collectively aimed at eliminating poverty by improving living conditions for residents of low-income neighborhoods and by helping the poor access economic opportunities long denied from them.
Detailed explanation-3: -Job Corps, U.S. government residential education and job-training program for low-income at-risk young people. Funded by Congress and administered by the U.S. Department of Labor, Job Corps seeks to teach young people the academic and vocational skills they need to secure meaningful and lasting employment.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is true that poverty declined by 30 percent within five years of Johnson’s declaration of war in 1964, but there has been little progress since the 1960s. For the last two decades, poverty has averaged well above the 12.1 percent achieved when Johnson left office in 1969.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 included the Job Corps, the college Work-Study Program and Head Start, but the following two year period also saw the creation of cornerstone programs such as Food Stamps, Medicare/Medicaid, HUD and others that today remain integral parts of the U.S. safety net.