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The Social Security Act was expanded to included payments to families after a premature death of a covered worker. "This is especially true in the case of the federal old age insurance system which has not been converted into a system of old age and survivors' insurance providing life-time family security" -Franklin D. Roosevelt "This transformed Social Security from a retirement program for workers into a family-based economic security program." -Social Security
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The Social Security Act was expanded to include payments to included permenantly disabled workers (aged 50-64). "It provides for increased Federal funds to encourage better medical care for the needy aged, blind, disabled, and dependent children. This will help meet a critical problem for these groups." -Statement by the President Upon Signing the Social Security Amendments of 1954
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On January 8, 1964, President Johnson declared War on Poverty in his State of the Union Address.
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On February 18, 1964, Sargent Shriver became the War on Poverty Cordinator. He would later create the Economic Opportunity Bill.
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To promote poverty programs, Sargent Shriver suggested that President Johnson tour impoverished areas, so on April 24, 1964, President Johnson visited a small town in Kentucky which had a higher population of impoverished people.
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To promote poverty programs, Sargent Shriver suggested that President Johnson tour impoverished areas, so on May 7, 1964, President Johnson visited the Appalachian areas which had a higher population of impoverished people.
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After declaring War on Poverty seven months earlier, President Johnson sign the Economic Opportunity Act which created job training programs.
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On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed an amendment to the Social Security Act which created Medicare, for the ederly, and Medicaid, for the poor.
