Reagan 1981-1989

What did the increase in defence spending mean for unemployment rates in 1988

Deceased it to 5.5% from 7% in 1980

How many new jobs were created from increase defence spending

7 million

How much did Reagan cut federal spending by in 1982

35.2 billion

What was inflation down to by 1989

4.7%

What did ERTA do 1981

Reduced the top tax bracket from 70%-50%

What did 1986 tax reform act do

Reduced tax from 50%-25%

Level of unemployment in 1983

9.6%

The decline in textile jobs 1980-1985

300,000 lost jobs due to foreign imports being cheaper

How many were below the poverty line in Baltimore and Cleveland in 1985

20%

What did the equality of banking act 1987 do

Cover the money lost by S and Ls (10 billion) from risky investments they made due to deregulation

Why did bush sign the 1989 FIRREA

bailed out closing failing organisations and set up federal regulators at a cost of 150 billion

What was Reagan debt by 1989

2.7 trillion

What was new federalism

Decreasing size of gov and giving power to states

Cut department of education down by 25% and decreased education grants by 63%

What did reagan do to education

How many pages did Reagan remove from federal register

23,000

What did Reagans lack of intervention in trade market do

Led to foreign imports becoming much cheaper and loss of American companies

How much did government rise by whilst Reagan was president

3%

What social security did he leave intact

Medicare, vets benefits, school lunches, head start

What was workfare

Requires atleast one working parent before paying a family benefits, lots of work paid below minimum wage

Reduced from 32.2 billion in 1978- 9.2 billion in 1988 led to 3.7 million qualifying for these homes but no homes

Cuts in building low cost homes

How much did homelessness rise by

200,000-400,000

How much did the average mortgage debt increase by between 1980-1987

30% and the rate of foreclosure quadrupled

What did deregulation of working conditions lead to

Many people had less leisure time in 1973 it was 26 hrs in 1987 16 hrs

How many black and Hispanic judges did Reagan appoint

5 black, 15 Hispanic out of 368

What did Reagan not support

Equal rights, abortion, strikes, counter culture

How much was the bill to help the homeless in 1987

Increase funding from 300 million in 1984 to 1.6 billion in 1987

What did working families that are not on welfare benefit from

Tax cuts

What woman did Reagan appoint

Sandra day for the Supreme Court

What did the federal government provide funding for in 1982

AIDS research

how much did women earn by 1990

They earned 72% of what men did rather than 62% in 1980

How many viewers did the Reagan carter debate bring in

80.6 million

What thinking did Reagan introduce

New right thinking which united republicans and some democrats

how did Reagan bring back business into government

Through huge campaign contributions

Foreign successes

Won the Cold War fist American president to have talks with Gorbachev Russian president

What was Reagans approval rating in 1989

70%

1986 Iran contra affair

Supplying arms to Iran to free us hostages and with that money supplied the contras in Nicaragua who were fighting communist government

What did bush have to do as a result of Reagan

Reduce defence spending a raise taxes

Trickle down economics

Reagan believed the more he benefitted the rich with tax cuts the more they would benefit the poor

Supply side economics

Tax cuts lead to wealthy being more likely to invest in America and stimulating more jobs and therefore increasing productivity

Reagan civil rights

Did little of the civil rights front

Supported justice department in its effort to undo programmes that gave job or education preference on the base of race and gender

Black males fell further than any other group in terms of wages and jobs

1987 nuclear forces treaty

Arms control agreement that eliminated a class of nuclear weapons restricting deployment of intermediate and short range land based missiles

1981 air traffic control strikes

12,000 on strike for higher pay Reagan sacked them if they did not come back to work