From the Great Society to the Great Betrayal
Kievsky
2,280 words
Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” in the 1960s set up millions of Blacks and Hispanics in cities on generous housing and welfare benefits. Before the Great Society, nobody assumed they could live on permanent government benefits, except maybe disabled veterans.
The Johnson and Nixon administrations’ welfare system, set up during America’s peak …
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