History: Change in Politics JFK-LBJ
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- John F. Kennedy
- Civil Rights
- Appointed 5 federal judges, including civil rights lawyer and activist Thurgood Marshal
- Threatened legal action against Louisiana for refusing to fun integrated schools
- October 1962: 23000 troops sent to Mississippi University so black student James Meredith could study there
- The Economy
- Doesn't balance budget to increase spending & decrease segregation
- General tax cut on goods to increase spending
- $900 million spent on public works. Government began public projects
- Social Reforms
- 1962 Manpower & Training Act: retraining for long-term unemployed
- Area Re-development Act 1961: government allowed to give loans/grants to states with long-term unemployed
- Housing Act 1961: cheap loans for inner-city re-development
- Social Security Act 1962: greater financial help to elderly and unemployed. Extended act benefits to each child with unemployed fathers
- Planned to increase minimum wage from $1.00 to $1.25
- Planned to start Medicare: cheap state health insurance system
- Civil Rights
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