Great Society

The Great Society was a series of Domestic initiatives announced in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson at Ann Arbor, Michigan. These programs include:

• VISTA,
• Job Corps,
• Upward Bound,
• Neighborhood Youth Corps,
• Head Start and
• an unconditional war on poverty.

The Great Society was never fully funded because of the Vietnam War, which drained available resources. It was partially overturned by President Ronald Reagan's first budget.