Great Society
Sixties domestic agenda
Great Society refers to the domestic programs launched by President Lyndon B.
Johnson in the mid-1960s, aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice.
The agenda included Medicare, Medicaid, federal education funding, and civil rights legislation.
The term echoes earlier American reform movements and is now shorthand for ambitious liberal social policy: Critics blame the Great Society for creating welfare dependency.
Law prohibiting discrimination
- Voting Rights ActLaw against electoral discrimination
- MedicaidPublic health coverage for poor
- Clean Air ActFederal pollution standards law
- Head StartFederal early childhood services
Government campaign against indigence
- antipovertyCombating economic destitution
- food stampsSubsidized grocery purchasing vouchers
- public assistanceGovernment help for poor
- safety netProtection against failure
means-tested · community development · job training · urban renewal · housing assistance · economic opportunity · poverty line · Head Start
Federal senior health program
- MedicaidPublic health coverage for poor
- PBSNon-profit educational broadcaster
- NPRNonprofit American broadcaster
- environmental protectionSafeguarding ecosystems from harm
arts funding · immigration reform · consumer protection · healthcare access · public broadcasting · cultural institutions · urban policy · liberal reform
- LBJThirty-sixth president's initials
- Lady BirdDome-shaped garden beetle
- FDRDepression-era presidential initials
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
Civil Rights Act
Law prohibiting discrimination
- Voting Rights ActLaw against electoral discrimination
- MedicaidPublic health coverage for poor
- Clean Air ActFederal pollution standards law
War on Poverty
Government campaign against indigence
- antipovertyCombating economic destitution
- food stampsSubsidized grocery purchasing vouchers
- public assistanceGovernment help for poor
safety net · means-tested · community development · job training · urban renewal · housing assistance · economic opportunity · poverty line · Head Start · neighborhood centers
Medicare
Federal senior health program
- MedicaidPublic health coverage for poor
- PBSNon-profit educational broadcaster
- NPRNonprofit American broadcaster
environmental protection · arts funding · immigration reform · consumer protection · healthcare access · public broadcasting · cultural institutions · urban policy · liberal reform · entitlements
Lyndon B. Johnson
Great Societylaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
limited government · libertarianism · rugged individualism · deregulation · privatization
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