During which presidential administration did the United States witness its first substantial creation of federal welfare programs as it actively expanded the welfare state to include education, health care, and assistance to the poor?

a. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal era of the 1930s
b. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society era of 1960s
c. the Carter administration in the late 1970s
d. the Reagan administration in the 1980s
e. the Bush administration beginning in 2001

ANS: B

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