Why America Lost the War on Poverty–And How to Win It

Stricker, Frank

doi:10.5149/uncp/9780807858042

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“…This was four times the amount that the government spent on poor tenants to help them keep their rental homes, which amounted to something like 40 billion. "Americans might have recast their idea of who got what for 'free' and from where", wrote a scholar addressing this very issue [21].…”

Section: The Case Of the United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Destroy the planet for the sake of the very rich? A plea for fair distribution as common sense

Grande

2019

E3S Web Conf.

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This paper will address from a peculiar point of view the key issue -raised today by Greta Thunberg and her peers- of the unlimited economic growth in a limited planet. It is its aim to point out how a relentless growth, while entailing dramatic ecological consequences in terms both of resources’ consumption/destruction and of climate change, contrary to a common perception does not benefit everybody. In contrast, because of the unequal distribution of GDP and wealth that is largely driven by the legal systems such as politically shaped, it benefits only the very rich. This new understanding should finally lead the vast majority of us to stop asking for an unlimited growth and to join Greta Thunberg in her protest, calling for something different, namely a less unequal redistribution of what we have via different legal rules. Why in fact should we destroy the planet, such as weneed it for our survival, just to make the very wealthy even more affluent?

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Section: The Case Of the United Statesmentioning

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Destroy the planet for the sake of the very rich? A plea for fair distribution as common sense

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2019

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“…According to Michael Katz, Mark Stern, and Jamie Fader, even beyond specific legislation, the War on Poverty had an important legacy-the acceptance of the idea of "public and publicly funded employment"-and was "a powerful vehicle" for economic advancement for African Americans and other minorities. 83 In his critique, Stricker admitted that the War on Poverty community action initiative did some good, but he maintained that its effects were limited and that it did not substitute for jobs. Unlike Stricker, who downplayed community action, NH staffers promoted it.…”

Section: Social Action: Staffers Developing As Civic Leadersmentioning

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Education in a Multi-Ethnoracial Setting: Seattle's Neighborhood House and the Cultivation of Urban Community Builders, 1960s–1970s

Tamura¹

2017

Hist. of Ed. Quarterly

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During the mid-1960s, the War on Poverty ushered in a change in outlook on the poor and stimulated Neighborhood House (a social service agency that began as a settlement house) to focus on educative, community-building initiatives. Yet ironically, while staffers offered educational programs for residents, they were themselves becoming educated. The space Neighborhood House provided emerged as a powerful venue in which staffers developed their talents to become socially minded civic leaders. This study of the post–World War II transformation of settlement work in a city in the Pacific Northwest reveals commonalities with other places as well as distinctiveness to Seattle conditions. The article expands the extant scholarship on multi-ethnoracial communities, War on Poverty programs, and settlement house responses to societal changes. In doing so, it reveals the ways in which Neighborhood House provided an important educative space for those who worked there, a place that nurtured their growth as civically minded community builders.

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“…welfare, but what it failed to do is give people in poverty marketable skills, realize that not all poor people are capable of work due to mental or physical disabilities, and fully address the problems of long-term welfare recipients (Sernau, 2006;Stricker, 2007).…”

Section: Welfare Reformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bum hunters : the simulations and neutralizations of negative actions taken against the homeless on YouTube.

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Why America Lost the War on Poverty–And How to Win It

Cited by 9 publications

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Destroy the planet for the sake of the very rich? A plea for fair distribution as common sense

Destroy the planet for the sake of the very rich? A plea for fair distribution as common sense

Education in a Multi-Ethnoracial Setting: Seattle's Neighborhood House and the Cultivation of Urban Community Builders, 1960s–1970s

Bum hunters : the simulations and neutralizations of negative actions taken against the homeless on YouTube.

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