Now taxes had to be raised to help the poor. People became disenchanted with anti-poverty programs. Some new programs were introduced that aided the poor such as EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) and WIC (Women Infants Children feeding supplemental program). But by 1973, the Nixon administration capped expenditures at 2.5 billion falling from 4 billion the previous year. Cutbacks gradually increase during the Carter administration and climaxed during the Reagan administration. BibliographyNew York Times Articles“Senate Votes a $75 Million Bill to Fight Starvation in Nation.”New York Times 5 Mar. 1967.Associated Press. “Long Says Roosevelt Is ‘a Liar and a Faker’ And‘Just Getting as smart as I Was’ at 14.” New York Times 9 Jul. 1935.Mallon, Winifred. “New Deal’s Pacts For Trade Praised.”New York Times 7 Jul. 1935.BooksDivine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Roberts. America: Past andPresent. Harper Collins College Publishers. 3rd ed. New York,1994.Langston, Thomas S. Ideologies and Presidents: From the New Dealto the Reagan Revolution. The John Hopkins University Press. Ballantine Books. 11th ed. Canada, 1992 ...
