The Great Society also cost a lot. In its first year of 1964, the social welfare budget doubled to more than $1 billion (roughly 1% of the federal budget), and then jumped exponentially.

They can't be that expensive." Remember, life expectancy was not where it is today. ... Is it right to say that the Great Society is the final act of the New Deal and the Rooseveltian vision of ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society included key policies such as federal aid for education, Medicare for older ...

The Great Society at 50: This is the first of four stories examining the legacy of President Lyndon B. Johnson's ambitious social agenda, known as the "Great Society". Part 2: ...

Again, for this, we can thank the Great Society, under which the Kerner Commission, reporting on the more than 150 riots in the summer of 1967, described group guilt as the cause: ...

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