USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term was first coined during a 1964 commencement address by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the University of Michigan and came to represent his domestic agenda. The main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

Detailed explanation-3: -In his first State of the Union address in January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress to declare an “unconditional war on poverty” and to aim “not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it” (1965).

Detailed explanation-4: -The resulting War on Poverty was part of a wider legislative program known as the Great Society, with which Johnson hoped to transform the United States into a more just and equitable country. The Economic Opportunity Act (EOA) established the Office of Economic Opportunity under the direction (1964–68) of R.