Question

President Lyndon Johnson supported social programs to improve our country. Choose 1 program that he supported and explain how it has helped citizens.

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Yes, indeed, President Lyndon Johnson supported social programs to improve the United States.  One program that he supported was VASTA, and it helped citizens in the following way.

The Great Society program under Lyndon Johnson which was the domestic equivalent of John Kennedy's Peace Corps was AmeriCorps VISTA.

As part of his promise of combating poverty in America, President Lyndon B. Jhonson signed the Economic Opportunity Act in 1964, which was compared to the US version of the Peace Corps created by former President John F. Kennedy. The goal was to open more jobs as part of Johnson's "War of Poverty in America."

The goal of this series of programs and pieces of legislation was to end poverty in America, reduce the inequality in American society, reduce crime, and support environmental actions. He coined the term "Great Society" during a speech at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.