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Johnson tasked state and local governments with creating work training programs for up to 200,000 men and women. A national work study program was also established to offer 140,000 Americans the chance to go to college who could otherwise not afford it.
Other initiatives the so-called War on Poverty offered were:
- A Community Action program for people to tackle poverty within their own communities.
- Ability for the government to recruit and train skilled American volunteers to serve poverty-stricken communities
- loans and guarantees for employers who offered jobs to the unemployed.
- funds for farmers to purchase land and establish agricultural co-ops
- help for unemployed parents preparing to enter the workforce
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Johnson knew battling poverty wouldn’t be easy. Still, he said, “…this program will show the way to new opportunities for millions of our fellow citizens. It will provide a lever with which we can begin to open the door to our prosperity for those who have been kept outside.”
The Head Start program started as an eight-week summer camp run by the Office of Economic Opportunity for 500,000 children ages three to five. Since the program’s inception, it has served over 32 million vulnerable children in America.
<u>Many Great Society programs fell under the War on Poverty umbrella.</u>
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