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Lyndon Johnson’s domestic policies combat poverty in United States

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Answer:So LBJ took advantage of the biggest automatic cash machine around: Social Security. He proposed, and Congress enacted, whopping increases in the minimum benefits that lifted some two million Americans 65 and older above the poverty line.

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