The War on Poverty: The Start of the Head Start Program

In January 1964, Lyndon Johnson announced the "poverty problem" in the union speech. His pursuit of a better American dream was accompanied by the greatest prosperity of the postwar era. The gross national product has risen, the unemployment rate has declined, personal disposable income has reached the highest level ever. As the baby-boomer generation ages, Americans become more labor force than ever, and the county has to plan for that growing country. As part of Johnson's poverty war, he created the idea of ​​"a wonderful society" that the president is convinced that the basic rules of these plans will help the country.

Head Start began as a part of the war on poverty alleviation in 1965. Its initial plan is usually 6 to 8 weeks and will be held in the summer before the child starts school. Today, most Head Start programs are held for 8 to 9 months a year, allowing a wide range of contact with plan staff and families. In the center-based option, the course is usually done in a part of 3 to 6 hours of time. Head Start is not designed to meet the day care needs of working parents and most of the mothers of Head Start's mothers are not hired.

The root cause of the header launcher program. Just like the former "war and poverty", the "war of violence" is a process in which children are asked to develop science to provide solutions and strategies to solve problems and situations in adulthood of adolescents and adolescents . In the 1960s policy makers interested in minority economic and educational disadvantages introduced the start of the project and other plans in the first five years of the child's life. The initial head start planning committee set five goals: improving the physical health and ability of the child, promoting confidence and self discipline, building up a successful model and expectation, and the ability of children who are actively connected with others Improve ability. There is no suggestion that preschool education can achieve such ambitious goals.5 In the 1960s the field of child development was simple.

President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the government's poverty alleviation war in 1964 as the poverty rate rose by 19%. He funded social security, food stamps, work force and head start benefit program. Poverty alleviation war includes medical insurance and Medicaid plans. It is aid for the first direct federal government to the school district, innovative environmental laws, updating of the city, civil rights, bilingual education grants, and will provide a donation of the country of art and culture. President Richard Nixon 's government proposed a family support program in 1969. It requires all welfare recipients (except mothers with children under 3 years of age) to work. Plan was finished in 1972, and liberal who provides too little support, criticized the program in order to request too strict labor rules. During the president, the government ultimately provided a large expansion of the welfare program, not welfare reform.