Social | Political | Economic |
disagreed with heavy state intervention | Poltiical credibility from being a serving as NATO supreme commander | eisenhower aimed to balance the income and expenditure by 62 however there was budget deficits every year |
conservative and republican policies reduced amount of federal spending and influence | 8 millionaires in cabinet | began to sell of government business to private capital to reduce federal economic control |
large scale highway building that was to be payed for by a fuel vat | mccarcythism and the fallout of mccarthy and Eisenhower threatened eisenhowers positions as authority and discredited the legitimacy of his presidency | reduced federal taxes by 7 billion |
extended social security was extended to self employed people | eisenhower was popular in congress and gained support from many african american voters due to his alliance efrom adam clayton powell | minimum wage was rased from 75 cents to a dollar an hour |
congress introduced a $1 billion subsidy for housing and more road construction in defiance of eisenhower | introduction of alaska and hawaii | created military industrial complex |
increased spending on education and creation of NASA | slashed agricultural subsides which caused farmers to overproduce for lost income and creation f they bank law 1956 that failed as prices continued to drop | |
increased investment in social security with the creation of the department of health, education and welfare was established | recession in 1957-58 resulted in unemployment and drop in production avoided any spending programmes due to fear of inflation | |
he appointed the frist african american as undersecretary as labour | 1959 budget deficit was $12.5 billion | |
encouraged labour unions to allow african americna labourers and he demanded desegration of interstate dining facilities on trains | ||
appointed earl warren to supreme court who heard brown v topeka board of education | ||
little rock arkansas 1957, sent federal troops to protect little rock 7 entering school | ||
he ordered the release of two black boys aged 7 and 9 for the rape of a white girl | ||
1957 civil rights act aimed at franchising black americans | ||