![]() ![]() ![]() The forty programs established by the Act were collectively aimed at eliminating poverty by improving living conditions for residents of low-income neighborhoods and by helping the poor access economic opportunities long denied from them. The speech led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to administer the local application of federal funds targeted against poverty. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent. ![]() Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Poverty Bill (also known as the Economic Opportunity Act) while press and supporters of the bill look on, August 20, 1964 ![]()
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