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 * Civil Rights Act of 1964
 * Gave equal rights to ALL Americans
 * War on Poverty Act
 * Provided $947.5 million dollars for job training centres, loans to poor students and low-income farmers, and basic education programs.
 * Economic Opportunity Act
 * The objective was to help the poor by enabling them to pull themselves from the grip of poverty Source:[]
 * Medicare
 * social insurance program administered by the United States government
 * providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over, or who meet other special criteria
 * Accelerated Public Works Act of 1962
 * ** Increase federal money for public works projects **
 * Improve unemployment
 * Reduce poverty
 * Head Start
 * Gave "head start" to poor
 * Food and health care to preschoolers to attack health and nutrition which was causes of poverty cycle
 *  The term "blacks" became socially acceptable, replacing Negroes.
 * Peace Corps
 * John Kennedy
 * Asia, Africa, and Latin America
 * Senator Kennedy formally proposed the idea in a major address at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on 2 November 1960
 * On 22 September 1961, President Kennedy signed the Peace Corps Act.
 * By that time, the first groups of Peace Corps Volunteers were already at work in Ghana and Tanzania
 * Would enable Americans to learn about public service, the duties of citizenship, and the international responsibilities of the United States to less developed countries
 * The program goals were ambitious: to help the people of interested countries and areas in meeting their needs for trained workers; to help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the people served; and to help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans
 * Number of volunteers in the field swelled to more than 15,000.

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