The correct answer is B) the infant mortality rate decreased.
The other options of the question were A) the number of people living in poverty increased. C) the number of uninsured people increased. D) the federal budget was decreased.
One effect on the Great Society programs was that the infant mortality rate decreased.
In January 1965, and after Lyndon B. Jhonson became the President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, he created the Great Society, a series of programs aimed to fight and reduce the crime in the country, to dimish poverty and racial injustice, and to provide better health care to the ones in need. Johnson established Medicare and Medicaid, health programs that made the infant mortality rate decreased and provided health services to poor adults.
