What Programs Did Ronald Reagan Remove?

President Ronald Reagan had his strengths and weaknesses during his presidency. Although Ronald Reagan had done many things that helped the citizens of the United States economically, for example, making the inflation in America better by cutting taxes down but because of this action, many job wages went down. Ronald Reagan may have helped America economically but he didn’t do a good job socially, why? Because he had cut funding from programs that helped minorities, he did nothing to help with the problem of AIDS and he would mostly help the wealthy.

What programs did president Reagan remove? Ronald Reagan cut the money for lunches in public school and food stamps, because he believed that having such programs were bad. He also closed hospitals for the mentally ill which caused many people who were in these hospitals to become homeless and live on the streets …show more content…
Reagan's presidency, there was a controversy over a disease that started spreading. The disease that was spreading during his presidency was Aids and most of the people affected were gay males, this disease is transmitted through sexual intercourse and messes up the person's immune system deteriorating your health and making one weak to other illnesses. Because most of the people affected by the disease were gay males the disease was called “gay cancer” by some. But what did Reagan do to help the people of America fight this disease? He did nothing, instead of trying to help he left that matter open and didn’t even try to fund to find a cure for the disease. Many organizations individually tried to help people who were getting infected with the uprising disease, many people who were conservative like president Reagan believe that this was a punishment toward the gay community, since they were the ones that were highly affected (75% were gay men). Although conservatives condemned gay men others felt sympathy for the people affected by this deadly disease nearly 100,000 people had died in the