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Chapter 24: Camelot to Watergate
"Poverty Then and Now"

Introduction
Students have read about President Johnson's war on poverty. In this lesson, students will examine poverty statistics.

Lesson Description
Students will visit the U.S. Census Bureau Web site and examine a line graph that tracks poverty in America from the 1960s through 1998. They will then answer questions based on the graph.

Instructional Objective
Students will be able to interpret a line graph in order to answer questions about it.

Student Web Activity Answers
1. 13 percent; about 24 million
2. The nation's population has increased since 1969.
3. a period of recession
4. increase; during a recession, more people are unemployed and so might sink into poverty.

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