THE GREAT SOCIETY
Legacy
THE EXPANSION ON FEDERAL SPENDING
Right: from US Spending. Blue indicates Medicaid, while red accounts for all other welfare programs.
Despite future Republican efforts to curb the welfare programs, spending on what was left with the Great Society steadily increased, most of them integrated into American lives.
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THE LIBERAL PLATFORM
Obamacare
The Common Core
Providing readily accessible health insurance to all; an expansion on Medicare.
An educational initiative to set up standards of learning material nationally.
Healthcare, welfare and economic reforms had become the heart of liberal platforms ever since the Great Society. Both of these programs were resisted by conservatives due to the increase of federal power.