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Economic Opportunity Act (EOA), federal legislation establishing a variety of social programs aimed at facilitating education, health, employment, and general welfare for impoverished Americans. It was signed into law in August 1964 by U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson as one of the landmarks of his War on Poverty and Great Society domestic programs.
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Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 20, 1964. The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 ( Pub. L. 88–452) authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty. These agencies are directly regulated by the federal government. [1] ".
- August 20, 1964
- the 88th United States Congress
- An Act to mobilize the human and financial resources of the Nation to combat poverty in the United States.
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Nov 30, 2020 · The Economic Opportunity Act of 1965 established the Jobs Corps and the federal work-study program. These provide academic and career skills for students. It implemented JFK's concept of the Volunteers in Service to America, which became AmeriCorps in 1993. It also created the Head Start preschool program.
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Nov 17, 2017 · In March 1964, Johnson introduced the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Economic Opportunity Act during a special message to Congress. He’d hoped to help the underprivileged break...
War on poverty. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Poverty Bill (also known as the Economic Opportunity Act) while press and supporters of the bill looked on, August 20, 1964. The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union Address on ...
Aug 17, 2018 · President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed a “War on Poverty” in 1964 that took form in an omnibus poverty bill (S. 2642) that was enacted as the Economic Opportunity Act (EOA, Public Law 88-452). It was the first major policy proposal from the Johnson administration, but it included several elements that had been considered previously by Congress.
The first volume of War on Poverty transcripts published in the Presidential Recordings Digital Edition ( PRDE) includes all of Johnson’s recorded conversations on the subject during the second half of 1964, and traces Johnson’s intense efforts to pass the economic opportunity bill.
