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Growing Pains
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Poverty Rate
• The program made significant
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contributions to the protection of
civil rights and the expansion of
social programs, but critics
Poverty Rate (Percentage) 15 increasingly complained that the
antipoverty programs were
ineffective and wasteful.
10
• The CAA network was
experiencing growing pains and
lessen commitment from
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President Johnson.
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