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Volunteers in Service Act to America(VISTA)
It is an anti-poverty program created by Lyndon Johnson's as the domestic version of the Peace Corps. Initially, the program increased employment opportunities for conscientious people who felt they could contribute tangibly to the War on Poverty. Volunteers served in communities throughout the U.S., focusing on enriching educational programs and vocational training for the nation's underprivileged classes. -
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The Kennedy and Johnson Years: Great Society Legislation
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Economic Opportunity Act
It served as the initial step in the war on poverty aspect of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program. The objective was to help the poor by enabling them to pull themselves from the grip of poverty. An additional aim was to improve the role of the federal government in the improvement of education. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
It was a part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty." A former teacher who had witnessed poverty's impact on his students, Johnson believed that equal access to education was vital to a child's ability to lead a productive life. -
Medicare
Congress designed Medicare to promote the general welfare of the United States. The program's financing mechanisms proceed under the taxing and spending powers, together with the commerce clause. Although some groups have challenged various features of the law, no litigant has challenged the Constitutional basis of the act as a whole. -
Medicaid
The Medicaid program was enacted in the same legislation that created the Medicare program Prior to the passage of this law, health care services for the indigent were provided primarily through a patchwork of programs sponsored by state and local governments, charities, and community hospitals. -
The Department of House and Urban Development
It was part of the "Great Society" program of President Lyndon Johnson, to develop and execute policies on housing and metropolises. -
The National Foundations of the Arts and Humanities
It was an act to provide for the establishment of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities to promote progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts in the United States, and for other purposes. -
Water Quality Act
President Johnson signs the Water Quality Act, preventing water pollution by requiring states to establish and enforce water quality standards for interstate waterways. -
Immigration Act of 1965
AKA :The Hart-Cellar Act abolished the national origins quota system that had structured American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a preference system that focused on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or residents of the U.S. Numerical restrictions on visas were set at 170,000 per year, not including immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, nor "special immigrants" -
Clean Water Restoration Act
The Clean Water Restoration Act of 1966 said many of the same things as the Oil Pollution Control Act. The difference was that the new law said that those dumping the oil would have to pay for the clean up and pay for any environmental damage. -
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
An Act to provide for a coordinated national safety program and establishment of safety standards for motor vehicles in interstate commerce to reduce accidents involving motor vehicles and to reduce the deaths and injuries occurring in such accidents.
