Public schooling, escalating minimum wage laws and the encouragement of fatherless families, were all things intensified under LBJ's "Great Society" program and "War on Poverty". They have made for a mad cocktail of out of control kids.
By the end of the Johnson Administration, 226 out of 252 major legislative requests (over a four-year period) had been met, Federal Aid to the poor rose from $9.9 billion in 1960 to $30 billion.
President Johnson's first ever public reference to the 'Great Society' took place during a speech to students on May 7, 1964, at Ohio University. "And with your courage and with your compassion and your desire, we will build the Great Society. It is a Society where no child will go unfed, and no youngster will go unschooled."
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