Later version of the Higher Education act help more than nine million lowincome students gain access to Higher Education. The Higher Education act has swung open the doors to college to countless americans creating new opportunities and access to terd. The American Dream. Again, i suppose some see this as another failure another government handout that prevents people from standing on their own two feet. Well, you can decide for yourself. If vastly expanding access to Higher Education constitutes a failure. But before you do, talk to a lowerincome student striving, say, to become a doctor. The first in her family to go to college. Thanks to the trio program upward bound. Thanks to pell grants. Thanks to low Interest College loans. Ask her if she feels like shes an undeserving taker unwilling to stand on her own two feet. In august of 1964, again just a few months after declaring the war on poverty Lyndon Johnson signed into law the food stamp act. Prior to that act hunger and malnutrit