What was the purpose of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964?

a. to make public places more accessible to Americans with disabilities

b. to combat inadequate social services, illiteracy, and unemployment

c. to extend Social Security benefits to more Americans

d. to prevent age, race, or gender discrimination in the workplace

An Act to mobilize the human and financial resources of the Nation to combat poverty in the United States.

The purpose of the Economic Opportunity act of 1964 was b) to combat inadequate social services, illiteracy, and unenmployment

Explanation:

To understand why d) is the correct answer we have to know that President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty in his Adress to the State of the Union in 1964.

Conceptualizing it as a national problem that required national organization and support to be ceased. Thus he organized the government to achieve his goal.

It was oriented to everyone, to seek the opportunity of education and or training, the opportunity to work and develop economically and to live with decency and dignity. It was not an expansion of programs that aimed at these goals. It was a new excursion to eliminate poverty and the factors that influence it.