What was one lasting effect of the Great Society? Fewer Americans lived below the poverty line. National healthcare became common. Education opportunities decreased. Immigration increased steadily.

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Helena Andrade

12 May, 21:56

What was one lasting effect of the Great Society? Fewer Americans lived below the poverty line. National healthcare became common. Education opportunities decreased. Immigration increased steadily.

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Olivia Goodman · Answer 1

The correct answer is Immigration increased steadily

President Johnson first used the term "Great Society" during a speech at the University of Ohio and then outlined the details of his University of Michigan program in 1964. The focus of government spending would be on projects for education, health, urban problems., rural poverty and transportation. The programs were carried forward by a Democratic Party-dominated Congress in the 1960s. Many compared the breadth of the "Great Society" to the New Deal, the program adopted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt three decades earlier.