Poverty In The 1960's

In the 1960’s, the United States plumed in an economic way! About twenty percent of the United States’ population lived under the poverty line. The 1960’s focused on structural poverty and culture of poverty. Structural poverty represented various failures of the economic system, and cultural of poverty focused on the idea of there being deeply entrenched social and financial habits. When many of the people thought about War on Poverty, it tied into Lyndon B. Johnson and the sixties. With Johnson’s Office of Economic Opportunity also known as the OEO, he thought that it would be a way to help. At the beginning of the War on Poverty it seemed to very popular and many supported it but it also had it drawdowns. The criticism came along with some
Property and savings were important to the elderly, but many of the elderlies didn’t make enough money to be able to save. This would of course be a big problem. If they didn’t have any money saved up and could not work anymore, it would be hard for them to stay up on their bills and pay medical bills so Katz viewed Medicare as a plus spite what Marusow viewed it as. Elderly people of course would end up having to stop working because they’ve became too old and could not move and do all of the things they could have done before. They then fall under the poverty line because they can’t work to make money like they did before. So Katz saw welfare and other government assistance to helping out the other people that could not work because of old age or even being permanently disabled. Because elderly people could barely pay their bills to have a place to stay housing was a way to help. He also made a point when he said food stamps reduced hungry. There were many families barley making it not being able to buy food to feed their families because they had to pay home bills so they wouldn’t become homeless! In today’s times many people see government assistance as helping some people but others also see it as people taking advantage of the lending