Social-Welfare Programs
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The War on Poverty's opening salvos were heard in the early 1960s under President Johnson. Combining a sense of heightened responsibility that included voting rights and desegregation with a vigorous economy, Johnson's administration sought to put into place programs that would bring about the increased economic well-being of the nation's poorest inhabitants. Under the Democratic administration and with the tacit approval of the populace, welfare programs that rivaled those of the 1930s in their scope were introduced, and a new program, Head Start, was aimed specifically at giving youngsters living in poverty the chance to get ahead. Today, Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole are engaged in a war on poverty of a different kind, one that pits them against Bill Clinton and which leaves the poor in the middle.As measured by Census Bureau statistics, Johnson's welfare program did reduce the amount of poverty in the United States as measured by Census Bureau statistics (Rich, 1993, p. A1). The total number of poor people in the mid-1980s was less than the total number of poor people in the late 1950s, although
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