What was the economic climate like when Kennedy took office?
Economic recession
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Unemployment and inflation rate?
Unemployment = 6.5 and Inflation = 3.5
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What was Appalachia noted for?
High levels of poverty and economic under-development
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What was the minimum wage increased to?
From $1 per hour to $1.25 per year
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Who ensured that certain groups were excluded?
Southern Democrats, led by Carl Vinson of Georgia, ensured that certain groups of workers were excluded
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Who was excluded?
350,000 poorly paid workers including 150,000 laundry workers including in industrial laundries servicing hospitals, schools and other large institutions
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What was the Area Development Act of 1961?
This Act provided $394 million over four years to aid areas such as Appalachia, around 26,000 new jobs were created
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What did the conservative coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats block?
Providing an extra $455 million to the Area Development Act
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What was the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962?
Provided job training for the poorly educated - 40 states applied for funding under the act
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What was the Housing Act 1961?
Congress voted $4.8 billion to fund housing projects for the poor and was an attempt to get the USA out of the economic recession that faced the country at the start of 1960s
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What was the Equal Pay Act?
Kennedy was the first president since Hoover to not have a woman in his cabinet but he did pass the Equal Pay Act which aimed to get women equal pay to men for the same job. However, it did no cover all women in world and had no enforcement powers
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What did Kennedy do for 700,000 children?
He increased school lunch and milk programmes for the poor
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What was the Higher Educational Facilities Act 1963?
Granted $145 million in grants for graduate schools in science, languages and engineering
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What did Kennedy create to co-ordinate efforts to help inner cities
The Department of Urban Affairs
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How did Kennedy help minorities gain employment?
Kennedy created, by Executive Order, the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (CEEO) to allocate a proportion of federal jobs to black Americans
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Did the CEEO have a great impact?
The New York Times stated little change had taken place in the level of black American unemployment, which was twice as high as white unemployment
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What was the Clean Air Act?
Congress passed this Act to limit pollution emissions from cars and factories
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What was the Peace Corps?
Sending American men and women to developing countries. Critics argue it was an extension of 'Yankee Imperialism' but others argue it was the USA reaching out to the developing world and giving a helping hand
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