The War on Poverty was the name given to legislation introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. The legislation intended to deal with the problem of poverty across the country. This legislation was also influenced by the previous "New Deal" introduced by President Roosevelt. The legislation influenced how welfare was seen during the following decades, until the presidency of Bill Clinton, when he introduced the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, reducing federal aid to impoverished people.

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Following the signing of the Affordable Care Act in March of 2010, a number of legal challenges were started in an effort to try

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The law was a copy of the one proposed by republican president Richard Nixon in 1974

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