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Created a system to allow the elderly to receive pensions, aid to impoverished children and mothers, and also added unemployment benefits to out of work people.
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This program was created to provide cheaper or free lunches to low income students
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President Johnsons speech during his State of the Union Address, which stated his plan to implement policies to reduce the high poverty rates in the United States at that time
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the Food Stamp program allowed families in poverty to be able to afford food products
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Medicare was created to ensure that those over the age of 65 were able to get health insurance
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Medicaid is a program that provides health coverage to low income families
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WIC was created as a program to help women and children below the poverty line who were at risk of nutritional deficiencies
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The low income home energy assistance program is used to provide those in poverty with adequate means of heating their homes
