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What were LBJ’s main domestic policy goals? (3)
Invest in education and leisure
Invest in urban areas and community-building
Invest in green spaces
What was The Programme?
The 60 bills that LBJ aimed to pass in order to achieve the Great Society
When and what was the tax reduction act?
1964
Cut taxes by $10 billion
When and what was the Manpower development act?
1964
Expansion of 1962 legislation to provide the poor with job training
When and what was the economic opportunity act?
1964
Set up poverty programmes under the office of economic opportunity
When and what was the elementary and secondary education act?
1965
Provided direct federal funding for schools
When and what was the higher education act?
1965
provided college scholarships and loans
When and what was the medical care act?
1965
Established the medicare and medicaid free healthcare schemes for the elderly and disabled respectively
When and what was the Omnibus housing act?
1965
Rent aid and funds for cheap housing projects
When and what was the Appalachian regional development act?
1965
$1 billion for infrastructure development in the Appalachian region
When and what was the national endowment for the arts?
1965
Arts funds
When and what was the demonstration cities and metropolitan development act?
1966
Gave certain cities slum clearances, housing developments and transport upgrades
When and what was the urban mass transportation act?
1966
public transport funding for cities
When and what was the clean water restoration act?
1966
$3.5 billion allocated to tackle and prevent water pollution
When and what was the highways beautification act?
1966
Limited how many billboards could be placed along highways
When and what was the endangered species protection act?
1966
Protected endangered species native to the US
When and what was the air quality act?
1967
Limited sources of air pollution such as car exhausts
When and what was the wild and scenic rivers act?
1968
Protected certain parts of eight key US rivers
