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Parent topics
- Social reform [r]: Social reform exists in the broad middle range between passive or uncritical acceptance of the institutions and practices of a society and revolution directed at completely overturning them. [e]
- Social legislation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Social history [r]: A branch of history that examines ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life, social organizations, social movements and deliberate attempts to induce social change. [e]
Subtopics
- Federal aid to education [r]: Federal grants to state and local governments or nonprofit organizations to support, maintain, expand or reform education. In the Great Society period, this was a major expansion of the federal constitutional role. More recently, federal assistance has been further extended to private, church-related and commercial educational ventures and individuals. [e]
- Federal grants [r]: Unilateral transfer payments from the U.S. national government to state and local governments or nonprofit organizations. [e]
- Medicare [r]: Title 18 of the U.S. Social Security Act. Provides medical and hospital care for the elderly and disabled. [e]
- Medicaid [r]: Title 19 of the U.S. Social Security Act, adopted in 1965. Provides means-tested medical care for the poor. [e]
- Civil rights legislation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Lyndon B. Johnson [r]: American politician (1908-1973); president 1963–1969; known for his civil rights bills and "The Great Society". [e]
- John F. Kennedy [r]: American politician (1917-1963); president 1961-1963; assassinated in Dallas. [e]
- Robert Kennedy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sargeant Shriver [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wilbur Cohen [r]: Add brief definition or description
