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© 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part, except for use as permitted in a license distributed with a certain product or service or otherwise on a password-protected website for classroom use. Why and how did government, especially federal government, consistently grow after WWII? What are some of the key institutions created during the “liberal era”? What events caused public and political sentiment to change and become more “conservative”? Where do we stand today?

© 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part, except for use as permitted in a license distributed with a certain product or service or otherwise on a password-protected website for classroom use. The size of government has grown under both “liberal” and “conservative” Congresses and Presidents In other words, both Democrats and Republicans have increased government spending

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Key programs and institutions created in the 1960s: 1)Economic Opportunity Act of )Medicare 3)Department of Housing and Urban Development 4)Department of Transportation 5)Consumer Protection acts

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See article by Alfred Kahn “Surprises of Airline Deregulation”