great society programs

great society programs
 Social programs initiated during the Lyndon Johnson administration, 1964– 1968.
 ► “With the ‘Great Society’ programs of the 1960s, and with robust economic growth, the percentage of Americans in poverty fell from 22.4% to 11.1% by 1973.” (Barron’s Jan. 30, 1995, p. 53)

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