Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Kennedy's
New Frontier
- Unemployment
- Gave $394 mn to certain
areas= over 4 years, 26,000
jobs created
- A further $455 mn to
these areas was
rejected by Congress
- Housing
- Housing Act 1961-
$48 bn on housing
for the poor
- Education
- Development and
Training Act 1962-
job training
- 1961 School Assistance Bill
fails to pass Congress
- Higher Educational
Facilities Act 1963- $145
grants to grad schools
- Tax Cuts
- Planned to cut
social security taxes
by 0.25%- blocked
by Congress
- Increasing Minimum Wage
- 25% increase
- Southern Democrats
ensured that 350,000
(mainly black) did not
benefit
- 1963 Equal Pay Act- no enforcement powers
- Health
- Healthcare for
Elderly Bill fails to
pass Congress
- Free school lunch
and milk for 700,000
poor children