Attitudes have also changed about government's role in social welfare. Again, under the New Deal the federal government signified responsibility to provide a minimal level of support for certain individuals, including the poor, farmers, and the elderly. By that time many states had already developed such social programs for certain categories of individuals (Skocpol 1995). President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society agenda expanded those commitments in the 1960s. As government moved into the area of social welfare support, it also grew to administer these programs. For example, Social Security today is the single largest government program and requires an organization of more than sixty thousand people to administer it (Social Security Administration 1999).