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LBJ Great Society - Coggle Diagram
LBJ Great Society
Tax Cut
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This worked for Johnson and the GNP rose by 9.5 percent in 1966. The deficit shrank because the renewed prosperity generated new tax revenues.
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Healthcare
Provided low cost health insurance coverage to poor Americans of any age who cannot afford their own private health insurance
In 1965, Johnson used his leadership skills to push through Congress two new programs, Medicare and Medicaid.
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Poverty
The Economic Opportunity Act, passes in the summer of 1964, was created to combat several causes of poverty
Two programs were put into place, Head Start and VISTA.
Johnson had experienced the pain of poverty first hand when he was growing up. He now pressed for the antipoverty program that Kennedy had begun to consider.
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Immigration
The act set overall limits of 170,000 immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere
And 120,000 from the Western Hemisphere
The immigration act of 1965 replaced the varying quotas with a limit of 20,000 immigrants per year.
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