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there were 101,716,000 people who worked full-time year round.
There were 108,592,000 people in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2011 who were recipients of one or more means-tested government benefit programs
The Census Bureau counted as recipients of means-tested government programs “anyone residing in a household in which one or more people received benefits from the program.” Many of these people lived in households receiving more than one form of means-tested benefit at the same time.
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty". Cloward and Piven were a married couple who were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in liberal magazine The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty".
The two stated that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare enrollment drive would strain local budgets, precipitating a crisis at the state and local levels that would be a wake-up call for the federal government, particularly the Democratic Party. There would also be side consequences of this strategy, according to Cloward and Piven. These would include: easing the plight of the poor in the short-term (through their participation in the welfare system); shoring up support for the national Democratic Party then-splintered by pluralistic interests (through its cultivation of poor and minority constituencies by implementing a national "solution" to poverty); and relieving local governments of the financially and politically onerous burdens of public welfare (through a national "solution" to poverty)
Cloward–Piven strategy
lernmore
Hi xuenchen,
I don't know you, but can I bum a couple bucks?
NoRulesAllowed
The "public welfare system" is not a CAUSE....it is a result.
It is NOT the welfare system which *caused* the crisis or made the country bankrupt.
You are arguing like someone who got a serious illness and gets hospitalized and then says the problem at hand is THE HOSPITALIZATION (the cost, inconveniences, bad food etc.) RATHER THAN THE ILLNESS which got him there in first place.
Panic2k11
reply to post by xuenchen
I gave you a star and a flag because I think this is a subject that merits discussion and revisiting from time to time (I do not believe you are the first to bring it up). I see you declared yourself as political enfranchised and with a single sided view of issues, so I'm not really expecting anything great beyond the OP from you on this subject... (hopping you prove me wrong)
I just would like to add to the discussion that maybe the problem was not the strategy or the implementation of one (I don't think it could be coordinated in the US political system, and escape the NSA and FBI). I think that those behind the proposed strategy only saw the clear issues of American society and that if any attempt to fair on the attribution of those social systems would collapse the US crony capitalism add to that levels of inefficiency and corruption and the thing is expedited... I do not think there is a need operate a conspiracy if the existing model is doomed to fail.
xuenchen
send me your BitCoin and PayPal numbers
NoRulesAllowed
The "public welfare system" is not a CAUSE....it is a result.
ColCurious
set up to support citizens via occupational retraining programs, providing both the skill and the incentive to apply themselves
Snarl
Why ... is it society's responsibility?
BlubberyConspiracy
This deficit spending is not sustainable, but the population depends on it now more than ever. At some point it will give, only God knows what that's going to look like.
Despite a $17 trillion debt, President Barack Obama assured high school students and teachers in Brooklyn on Friday that there are enough resources for the spending on education, research and infrastructure, so long as tax loopholes are closed.