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WAR ON POVERTY
**Janel Little** __**OUTLINE**__ ​**I. Intorduction**
 * Mr. Bujak**
 * Honors United States History**
 * May 25th, 2010**

III.**
 * II.

**__WAR ON POVERTY__** The war on poverty was the governments’ way to address the problem of poverty in the United States of America in 1964. This was first introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson during his famous “State of the Union” address. It was a response to the nation’s high percent on poverty. His address led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act. This program was created to give people in need opportunities to get them out of poverty. They made community, health, and education programs such as Head Start in effort to give children ways to perform better in school. Even though this was an attempt to get people out of poverty, President Johnson’s War on Poverty was a failure. Welfare completely backfired. This was a failure due to the fact that trillions of dollars were spent and there were only a few positive benefits. The War on Poverty was a series of programs in the areas of health, education and welfare that congress passed. In 1964, when President Johnson declared and “unconditional war on poverty in his State of the Union speech, he used federal aid for education and medical care for the children and elderly. Most of those plans passed in 1965 became the legislative idea associated with the war on poverty. The House Education and labor committee started to consider the Economic Act in April and it was passed by congress in August. The office of economic opportunity served as the official center for the war. The office of economic opportunity contained assistant directors for each of the three most important components of the economic opportunity act. The job corps was the first of these components. It was based on the New Deal models like the civilian conservation corps, which recruited 10,000 people by June 1965 to receive training in urban centers, located in ld military bases or smaller conservation camps ran by the agriculture departments. The camps stressed the value of discipline and physical labor in rural settings like forests and recreational areas. The job corps began to encounter problems in congress. Training youth for meaningless jobs turned out to be very expensive and hard to do. Some of the job corps trainees committed crimes and a riot had even erupted at one of the job corps training centers, added to negative publicity. The program had survived as a public, private partnership ran by the department of labor. In four years, the program had served almost two million disadvantaged youth. The second important component of the office of economic opportunity was the community action program. This program functioned as a grant program that came from the federal government to the local community action agencies. These local agencies were suppose to mobilize the resources of a area and plan an attack on the causes of poverty. Their mission was to include the local residents in the decision making process. The congress began to question the usefulness of the community action program after riots in the Watts neighborhood in the Los Angeles. Then President Johnson began to distance his self from the programs after he got some complaints from politicians about the local community action agencies operating as centers to organize political movements against the mayors and city council members. In 1967, a state representative helped save the community action programs by giving a successful amendment that put more than 1000 community action agencies under the control of local governments. Even thought the community action agencies were suppose to function as local labs for reform, the office of economic opportunity developed “national emphasis” programs that were adopted across the country. The most effective program was the Head Start program which started in the summer of 1965. Head Start grew into a permanent program that had its own funding and provided educational, health, and welfare services to more that eighteen million low income children. It all started as a six week summer program with about a hundred million dollar budget, then it became a nine month program with almost a 5.4 billion dollars budget. The third important part of the office of economic opportunity was VISTA. VISTA stood for volunteers in service to America. It was similar to the peace corps that had been made in when Kennedy was president. The program allowed the federal government to get, train and fund volunteers to live with the poor and work on projects that could end poverty in urban and rural areas. In 1968, the volunteers in service to America were out, working on 447 projects in almost every state. Just like Head Start and Job Corps, this program survived. 120,000 Americans had performed as Volunteers in service to America. The department of labor begun the Neighbor Youth Corps. This program was designed to keep students in need in school by giving them a stipend, work experience and training. The department of agriculture started a program that provide loans for low income farm families for business reasons and tried to improve the living conditions of the farm workers. Other components pf the Economic opportunity act were designed to mesh with rehabilitation services authorized by the public welfare amendment. The most important thing of the War of poverty that was not included in the economic opportunity act provided federal money for the education of children in low income families and medical care of elderly people and people on welfare. These programs enjoyed more support in congress and got way more funding that the programs created by the economic opportunity act. Big expansions of the social security program worked more effectively to try to lower the poverty in the nations elderly that all of the other components of the economic opportunity act. In the later 1960’s, it became more noticeable that congress favored certain programs like the Head Start program over programs like the community action program. Congress kept fund for Head start at he expense of community action and job corps. Later congress replaced the office of economic opportunity with the community services and sped up the process when the parts of the antipoverty program that were favored exported to establish executive agencies like the department of health, welfare and education. Then when Reagan became president the administration for community services was abolished. That left individual programs like Head start as survivors of the war on poverty. People argue that the antipoverty programs in the 60’s made the rate of poverty worst rather than ending poverty like they were planed to do. They started a national dispute over the efficiency of the war on poverty and great society programs when Reagan tried to cut government funding for these welfare programs. President Reagan distinguished the programs of the new deal. The programs of the great society that started the war of poverty. Poverty won. President Johnson hoped to made programs that would allow communities to experiment with what worked the best. Even thought it failed, the office of economic opportunity paid for research in the cause of poverty. It sounded natural for the researcher to test the guaranteed income that would pay working and poor families led by women. They approved to conduct a larger experiment that would go down in history. They conducted negative income tax experiments. The war on poverty failed to end poverty and made people wonder about the federal governments’ ability to provide social services that actually worked. Head Start, of course, survived the text of time and is a effective way to improve educational performance for children in school. The era of the war of poverty witnessed programs such as Medicare that have became part of the American life and made Americans health care and other services way more accessible, thanks to some of the antipoverty programs in the 1960’s.

Works Cited Gillette, Michael L. //Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History.// New York: Twayne, 1996.

"Programs during War on Poverty of 1960s Designed to Help Native Americans." //DISCovering Multicultural America//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Brooks (Southside Coll.). 13 May. 2010 [|http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do? &contentSet=GSRC &type=retrieve &tabID=T001 &prodId=SRC-1 &docId=EJ2116217117 &source=gale &srcprod=SRCG &userGroupName=cps1500 &version=1.0]. Sokol, Jason. "Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972.(Book review)." //Journal of Southern History.// 76. 1 (Feb 2010): 213(2). //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Brooks (Southside Coll.). 15 May. 2010 [[[]? &contentSet=IAC-Documents &type=retrieve &tabID=T002 &prodId=SRC-1 &docId=A218657035 &source=gale &srcprod=SRCG &userGroupName=cps1500 &version=1.0]].
 * Working thesis statement:**

===**__New working thesis statement__** The War on Poverty was the governments way to address the problem of poverty in the United States in 1964. This program was created to give people in need opportunites to get them of poverty. They made community and health programs such as Head Start in effort to give children ways to perform better in school. Even those this was an attempt to get people out of poverty, President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty was a failure. Welfare completely backfired. This was a failure due to the fact that trillions of dollars were spent and only a few positive benefits.


 * The War on Poverty was the governments wat to address the problem of poverty in the United States in 1964. This program was created to give people in need opportunities to get out of poverty. They made community and health programs such as Head Start in effort to give children ways to perform better in school. ** **Working bibliography:**

"Great Society Programs of the 1960s." //DISCovering U.S. History//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Brooks (Southside Coll.). 15 May. 2010 . = Ripley, Amanda. "A War by Any Other Name.(Notebook)(Brief Article)." //Time.// 166. 6 (August 8, 2005): 16. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Brooks (Southside Coll.). 15 May. 2010 [|http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do? &contentSet=IAC-Documents &type=retrieve &tabID=T003 &prodId=SRC-1 &docId=A134650630 &source=gale &srcprod=SRCG &userGroupName=cps1500 &version=1.0]. = = ==== =The persistence of poverty in the United States= By Garth L. Mangum, Stephen L. Mangum, Andrew Sum, Sar A. Levitan <[] >

=Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty =

Weeks into Office, LBJ Turned Nation's Focus to the Poor
by Robert Siegel <[] >

Document: Lyndon B. Johnson: The War on Poverty**[]**

Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it By Frank Stricker []

__WAR ON POVERTY/GREAT SOCIETY__ []

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President Johnson's War on Poverty: Rhetoric and History By David Zarefsky []

=Lyndon Johnson remembered: an intimate portrait of a presidency= By Thomas W. Cowger, Sherwin Markman []

"Programs during War on Poverty of 1960s Designed to Help Native Americans." //DISCovering Multicultural America//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Brooks (Southside Coll.). 13 May. 2010 [|http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do? &contentSet=GSRC &type=retrieve &tabID=T001 &prodId=SRC-1 &docId=EJ2116217117 &source=gale &srcprod=SRCG &userGroupName=cps1500 &version=1.0].

Sokol, Jason. "Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972.(Book review)." //Journal of Southern History.// 76. 1 (Feb 2010): 213(2). //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Brooks (Southside Coll.). 15 May. 2010 [&contentSet=IAC-Documents &type=retrieve &tabID=T002 &prodId=SRC-1 &docId=A218657035 &source=gale &srcprod=SRCG &userGroupName=cps1500 &version=1.0].

**I. Introduction** III. The Current Problem and How President Johnson planned to solve it. IV. Did things go as planned? V.**
 * A**.Openeing statement.
 * i**. Question, or general statement regarding the topic
 * ii**. President Johnson plan about welfare completely backfired.
 * II. Background on what was happening in The United States in the 60's
 * VI.** **Conclusion**
 * A.** The paper conclusion.
 * i.** A brief summary of what I stated above.
 * ii.** What moves that could be made to resolve the issue.
 * iii.** Thesis statement.

War on poverty

Janel Little Mr. Bujak Honors United States History May 25th, 2010

Outline Introduction: The war on poverty was the governments’ way to address the problem of poverty in the United States of America in 1964. This was first introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson during his famous “State of the Union” address. It was a response to the nation’s high percent on poverty. His address led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act. This program was created to give people in need opportunities to get them out of poverty. They made community, health, and education programs such as Head Start in effort to give children ways to perform better in school. Even though this was an attempt to get people out of poverty, President Johnson’s War on Poverty was a failure. Welfare completely backfired. This was a failure due to the fact that trillions of dollars were spent and there were only a few positive benefits. I. Introduction A. Opening Statement/ Thesis Statement 1. 2. Detail of the information B. Second supporting information for the sub-topic 1. Detail of the information 2. Detail of the information II. The second sub-topic A. 1. 2. B. 1. 2. III. A. 1. 2. B. 1. 2.

Conclusion:

WAR ON POVERTY The war on poverty was the governments’ way to address the problem of poverty in the United States of America in 1964. This was first introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson during his famous “State of the Union” address. It was a response to the nation’s high percent on poverty. His address led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act. This program was created to give people in need opportunities to get them out of poverty. They made community, health, and education programs such as Head Start in effort to give children ways to perform better in school. Even though this was an attempt to get people out of poverty, President Johnson’s War on Poverty was a failure. Welfare completely backfired. This was a failure due to the fact that trillions of dollars were spent and there were only a few positive benefits. The War on Poverty was a series of programs in the areas of health, education and welfare that congress passed. In 1964, when President Johnson declared and “unconditional war on poverty in his State of the Union speech, he used federal aid for education and medical care for the children and elderly. Most of those plans passed in 1965 became the legislative idea associated with the war on poverty. The House Education and labor committee started to consider the Economic Act in April and it was passed by congress in August. The office of economic opportunity served as the official center for the war. The office of economic opportunity contained assistant directors for each of the three most important components of the economic opportunity act. The job corps was the first of these components. It was based on the New Deal models like the civilian conservation corps, which recruited 10,000 people by June 1965 to receive training in urban centers, located in ld military bases or smaller conservation camps ran by the agriculture departments. The camps stressed the value of discipline and physical labor in rural settings like forests and recreational areas. The job corps began to encounter problems in congress. Training youth for meaningless jobs turned out to be very expensive and hard to do. Some of the job corps trainees committed crimes and a riot had even erupted at one of the job corps training centers, added to negative publicity. The program had survived as a public, private partnership ran by the department of labor. In four years, the program had served almost two million disadvantaged youth. The second important component of the office of economic opportunity was the community action program. This program functioned as a grant program that came from the federal government to the local community action agencies. These local agencies were suppose to mobilize the resources of a area and plan an attack on the causes of poverty. Their mission was to include the local residents in the decision making process. The congress began to question the usefulness of the community action program after riots in the Watts neighborhood in the Los Angeles. Then President Johnson began to distance his self from the programs after he got some complaints from politicians about the local community action agencies operating as centers to organize political movements against the mayors and city council members. In 1967, a state representative helped save the community action programs by giving a successful amendment that put more than 1000 community action agencies under the control of local governments. Even thought the community action agencies were suppose to function as local labs for reform, the office of economic opportunity developed “national emphasis” programs that were adopted across the country. The most effective program was the Head Start program which started in the summer of 1965. Head Start grew into a permanent program that had its own funding and provided educational, health, and welfare services to more that eighteen million low income children. It all started as a sex week summer program with about a hundred million dollar budget, then it became a nine month program with almost a 5.4 billion dollars budget. The third important part of the office of economic opportunity was VISTA. VISTA stood for volunteers in service to America. It was similar to the peace corps that had been made in when Kennedy was president. The program allowed the federal government to get, train and fund volunteers to live with the poor and work on projects that could end poverty in urban and rural areas. In 1968, the volunteers in service to America were out, working on 447 projects in almost every state. Just like Head Start and Job Corps, this program survived. 120,000 Americans had performed as Volunteers in service to America. The department of labor begun the Neighbor Youth Corps. This program was designed to keep students in need in school by giving them a stipend, work experience and training. The department of agriculture started a program that provide loans for low income farm families for business reasons and tried to improve the living conditions of the farm workers. Other components pf the Economic opportunity act were designed to mesh with rehabilitation services authorized by the public welfare amendment. The most important thing of the War of poverty that was not included in the economic opportunity act provided federal money for the education of children in low income families and medical care of elderly people and people on welfare. These programs enjoyed more support in congress and got way more funding that the programs created by the economic opportunity act. Big expansions of the social security program worked more effectively to try to lower the poverty in the nations elderly that all of the other components of the economic opportunity act. In the later 1960’s, it became more noticeable that congress favored certain program like the Head Start program over programs like the community action program. Congress kept fund for Head start at he expense of community action and job corps. Later congress replaced the office of economic opportunity with the community services and speeded up the process when the parts of the antipoverty program that were favored exported to establish executive agencies like the department of health, welfare and education. Then when Reagan became president the administration for community services was abolished. That left individual programs like Head start as survivors of the war on poverty. People argue that the antipoverty programs in the 60’s made the rate of poverty worst rather than ending poverty like they were planed to do. They started a national dispute over the efficacy of the war on poverty and great society programs when Reagan tried to cut government funding for these welfare programs. President Reagan distinguished the programs of the new deal. The programs of the great society that started the war of poverty. Poverty won. President Johnson hoped to made programs that would allow communities to experiment with what worked the best. Even thought it failed, the office of economic opportunity paid for research in the cause of poverty. It sounded natural for the researcher to test the guaranteed income that would pay working and poor families led by women. They approved to conduct a larger experiment that would go down in history. They conducted negative income tax experiments. The war on poverty failed to end poverty and made people wonder about the federal governments’ ability to provide social services that actually worked. Head Start, of course, survived the text of time and is a effective way to improve educational performance for children in school. The era of the war of poverty witnessed programs such as Medicare that have became part of the American like and made Americans health care and other services way more access thanks to some of the antipoverty programs in the 1960’s.

Works Cited Gillette, Michael L. //Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History.// New York: Twayne, 1996.

"Programs during War on Poverty of 1960s Designed to Help Native Americans." //DISCovering Multicultural America//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Brooks (Southside Coll.). 13 May. 2010 [|http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do? &contentSet=GSRC &type=retrieve &tabID=T001 &prodId=SRC-1 &docId=EJ2116217117 &source=gale &srcprod=SRCG &userGroupName=cps1500 &version=1.0]. Sokol, Jason. "Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972.(Book review)." //Journal of Southern History.// 76. 1 (Feb 2010): 213(2). //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Brooks (Southside Coll.). 15 May. 2010 [&contentSet=IAC-Documents &type=retrieve &tabID=T002 &prodId=SRC-1 &docId=A218657035 &source=gale &srcprod=SRCG &userGroupName=cps1500 &version=1.0].