, increased social security benefits for the indigent and disabled and veterans, subsidies for child health and nutrition, adult literacy and job training, rent supplements for the poor, a public housing and urban development act, an Appalachian Regional Development Act and a mass transit act. All told, federal expenditures on social programs increased from $9.9 billion in 1961 to 25.6 billion in 1969 (Andrews, p. 87). Chafe (1986) estimated actual expenditures on anti-poverty programs rose from $1.4 billion in 1965 to 10.4 billion in 1970 (p. 243). They never exceeded $2 billion per annum during LBJ's term. Andrews estimated that while $15 billion was spent 1965-1968 on the War on Poverty, $128 billion was spent on the Vietnam War
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