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) - closed 59 job corps

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

Feminism

Nixon increased female appointment in office and set up the presidential task force on women rights

• also directed the justice department and department of labour to act on sexual discrimination

Civil rights

• Shirley Chrisholm 1968 - first black women in Congress

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

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.

Welfare

Aid to families with dependent childern was being paid to 3 mil people in 1960 - 1970 8.4 million

Protests

• Nixon administration charged Chicago 8 with conspiracy after riots at democratic convention

• Kent state protests 1970 - 4 dead

• Jackson state protests 1970 - 2 dead

• Protesters often taken to court or the loss of federal scholarships

New economic policy

• wages and prices were frozen, tax cuts

• 10% import tax to incentive for American business

• End of the 1944 Breton woods accord that linked the dollar to the value of gold - made imports expensive but exports cheeper

• Short term success’s long term failure