Question

How did president lyndon b johnson get congress to approve on his billion-dollar war on poverty?

Answer 1

Answer:

In order to get Congress to approve his billion-dollar war on poverty, President Johnson included this bill within the Revenue Act of 1964, which imported a tax reduction for much of American society.

Explanation:

Johnson declared war on poverty. The prosperity of the 1950s did not end poverty in the United States. In his classic work The Other America (1962), political activist Michael Harrington claimed that 40 million Americans did not have an appropriate diet and lived in terrible conditions. With very little or no state aid, the poor were trapped in a vicious circle that did not allow them to get out of the culture of poverty. The lack of education, medical care and employment condemned them, according to Harrington, to being "foreigners" in their own country. To deal with this situation, President Johnson proposed the creation of training programs that would allow the poor to integrate into the American economy. In 1964, the Economic Opportunities Act was approved, creating a federal entity - the Office of Economic Opportunities - in charge of combating poverty. The Johnson administration's arsenal against poverty included the creation of the "Job Corps," a kind of local Peace Corps, and the creation of the Head Star program for preschool children, among others.

Answer 2

He added it to a bill calling for dramatic tax cuts for middle-class Americans.