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User:TMHMedico/Best Government Achievements

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Paul C. Light has identified the top ten achievements of government as follows

  • 1.) Rebuilding Europe after World War II.
  • 2.) Expanding the right to vote across races and to lower ages.
  • 3.) Promoting equal access to public accommodations such as restaurants and motels.
  • 4.) Reducing diseases such as polio.
  • 5.) Reducing workplace discrimination especially against the disabled.
  • 6.) Ensuring safe food and drinking water especially chicken or beef cleanliness.
  • 7.) Strengthening the nation's highway system.
  • 8.) Increasing older Americans' access to healthcare.
  • 9.) Reducing the federal deficit.
  • 10.) Promoting financial security in retirement.[1]