It included programs to help children and job-seekers.
Jule Sugarman created the Headstart program in 1965 as a response to Lyndon B. Johnsons war against poverty. The program began as a summer program until converted to year-long.
Medicare, medicaid, war on poverty
War took the front page, not his social programs.
The Economic Opportunity Act came first.
measures to provide healthcare for those in need
Social Legislation slowed down because of the cost of Vietnam. (Apex)
Vietnam took time and attention away from the war on poverty
The war on poverty.
Well I think the answer is, The War On Poverty.
"The War on Poverty"
measures to provide healthcare for those in need
Lyndon Johnson was the president who declared war on poverty. Poverty won.