Question

What was the Great Society? In what ways did it alter the U.S. and in what ways did it fail to do so?

Answer 1

Great society was the set of initiatives taken in 1964, by then president Mr. Johnson who intended to reduce poverty and worked to remove social injustice, in a direction to make a great society in the USA. Here, the great society means a society, that has nobody with hunger, poverty alleviation programs and medical services to those people who are at the lowest level.

It altered the USA in different ways. The first way was to work on health care programs and came up with Medicare and Medicaid programs. The second way was to to take initiatives to eliminate the racial injustice in the US societies and help ethnic societies gain more rights in the USA. The third way was to work upon alleviation of hunger and launched programs to reduce poverty level.

Though, in some ways, great society related initiatives lost its steam and could not work effectively. The first way was the lack of support for all the initiatives by fellow democrats of the future government after 1964. It discouraged the programs and key objectives were partially achieved. The second way was the decreased funding to the programs that caused these programs to work in limited areas and could not work in the every states of the USA. So, these are some of the ways that made these programs to fail in the USA.