nixon domestic

Poverty

SSI (supplemental security income) - provided guaranteed income for elderly/ disabled

FAP (family assistance program) - food stamps replaced with direct cash payments

• however it was rejected by congress

Shrank the OEO (office of economic opportunity)

Social security spending increased

Inequality

Called for the immediate desegregation of schools (68% in 1968 - 8% in 1972)

Busing - court ordered Nixon himself could do nothing (Swann V. Charlotte-Mecklenburg board of education (1971)

• mass protests

‘War on drugs’ - mass incarceration of African Americans (law and order) 200,000 prisoners long term this number only increased

Healthcare

Medicare and Medicade he increased funding

Safe drinking water act (1974)

OSHA (occupational safety and health administration)

• ensured safe working conditions and practices

Education

Increased federal spending on education

Desegregation of schools sped up

Vocational education act (1972)

• prohibited sex discrimination in education programs

Environmental

EPA - environmental protection agency (1970), looked into air, water and solid waste pollution solutions.