Evaluate the extent to which Great Society programs were effective in addressing the causes and effects of poverty in the United States during the 1960s. Provide specific evidence to justify your answer.

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Great Society programs were effective in addressing the causes and effects of poverty in the United States during the 1960s in that President Jonson's administration made a great effort to improve the conditions of millions of Americans who were living in poverty, offering them programs to attend college, loans to businessmen to hire new workers, and support American farmers. With the introduction of the Office of Economic Opportunity in March 1964, President Jhonson showed his true intention to offer some relief and he went beyond, also creating health legislation such as Medicaid and Medicare.

on april 6, 1917, the u.s. joined its allies--britain, france, and russia--to fight in world war i. under the command of major general john j. pershing, more than 2 million u.s. soldiers fought on battlefields in france.

barrio is a spanish word meaning neighborhood. in spain, several latin american countries and the philippines, the term is also used officially to denote a division of a municipality while a ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. the term may have originally been used in venice to describe the part of the city to which jews were restricted and segregated.