Project Head Start was also established which was an eight-week summer program that provided low-income preschool children with social, health, psychological, nutritional, and emotional support. Following the introduction of the War on Poverty policy, poverty rate fell. There was many who criticized LBJ’s war on poverty. Some calling it the beginning of a welfare state in the United States. Saying that the welfare programs went from emergency rescue to a way of life. That it enabled people to not have to work, and use the money they receive from welfare to pay their way through life. People argued that instead of allowing people to pull themselves out of poverty, the welfare programs kept people in poverty. LBJ’s goal with his war on poverty was to create a Great Society that was
Project Head Start was also established which was an eight-week summer program that provided low-income preschool children with social, health, psychological, nutritional, and emotional support. Following the introduction of the War on Poverty policy, poverty rate fell. There was many who criticized LBJ’s war on poverty. Some calling it the beginning of a welfare state in the United States. Saying that the welfare programs went from emergency rescue to a way of life. That it enabled people to not have to work, and use the money they receive from welfare to pay their way through life. People argued that instead of allowing people to pull themselves out of poverty, the welfare programs kept people in poverty. LBJ’s goal with his war on poverty was to create a Great Society that was