Fifty years have passed since President Johnson first declared a War on Poverty in his 1964 State of the Union address. While many of the programs that emerged from this national commitment are now taken for granted, the nation would be unrecognizable to most Americans if they had never been enacted.
➷ It had a positive effect on American communities. Federal funds were sent to communities that were struggling in order to attack unemployment, as well illiteracy. The War on Poverty did manage to reduce poverty levels in some American communities.
The great depression started because of a stock market crash. meaning economy will go down quickly. As companies started losing money they could not pay there employees enough. Employees then started quitting there jobs or low food supply made them hungry tired and weak. For the survivors that needed money had to get jobs though it was difficult because companies could not pay enough. People had to grow there own crops and get there own water to survive.
