POLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amitai Etzioni, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
28 Sep 2016
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In 1964, a government economist calculated that a non-farm family with two children need an income of ,621 to provide food and non-food essentials about 15% of families fell below that income, called the poverty level . Democratic president lyndon johnson declared a war on poverty . Congress enacted various programs< head start educational services for children, medicare health benefits for seniors, insurance and food stamps for the unemployed- to help the young, old and poor. Nevertheless, these programs did not reduce the percentage of families in poverty over time. In 2012 about 15% still had income below the revised poverty line (critics charged that. Defenders replied that their goal was to not increase poop people"s income but to provide non- cash benefits in the form of food, shelter, education, and health care. Government policies enacted under republican presidents did aim at increasing incomes.
