a. Before Federal Food programs such as Food Stamps and School Breakfast, there were millions of Americans malnourished. But even after the Food Programs were implemented still there was hunger in America. Not until the Carter Administration was malnutrition and starvation effectively eliminated. But although starvation has been eliminated, some argue that the seventeen million Americans on the Food Stamp program today cannot obtain a balanced diet.In a New York Times article, August 3, 1967, “Senate Votes a $75 million Bill To Fight Starvation in Nation”, one can feel the urgency to eliminate poverty. Anti-poverty hearings conducted by the Senate Labor Subcommittee told of starvation in the Mississippi Delta, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., California, and Alaska. The Bill allocated money to the affected state with approval from the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Agriculture Secretary and the Governor of the state being reviewed. The Bill also authorized a comprehensive study on starvation in America. Republican Senator Jacob K. Javitz of New York said, “Starvation and serious malnutrition must absolutely be exercised in our country.”Indeed Johnson’s social revolution was the greatest domestic initiative since Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. However, Johnson will always be remembered as the president who escalated American involvement in Vietnam. This is perhaps the reason why most of his domestic policies failed. Financial strain caused by the Vietnam conflict forced the Federal government to cut back on poverty programs. So even after Johnson left office, programs he initiated were being cut. However, Vietnam was not the only reason Johnson’s Great Society failed. In the early 1970’s corporate profits began to decline. To aggravate the situation, Corporations invested earnings abroad, specifically for the development of third world nations....
