An Historical Study of Federally Funded Anti-poverty Programs in the District of Columbia from the 1960's to the Present
Author | : Charles B. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Federal aid to public welfare |
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Author | : Charles B. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Federal aid to public welfare |
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Author | : Rogette Harris |
Publisher | : Universal-Publishers |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2006-04-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1581123205 |
Several policymakers, public administrators, the media, and others have celebrated the "success" of the latest anti-poverty policy reforms. Is success a type of economic form or an assessment of the quality of one s life? Success is often defined in some type of economic form, even though it does not always provide a true sense of the effect of policy changes. Assessing the human impact of policy change requires more. It requires knowing about the resources of beneficiaries of social services and their conditions of life from various perspectives; therefore, we must strive to understand the socio-cultural aspects of people s lives that create the whole person, which evaluates one s quality of life. This study examines long-term government funded social programs. More significantly, it answers the question: Have long-term anti-poverty policies alleviated poverty in the U.S.' This study also outlines poverty s major root causes, current strategies, and presents a brief historical background on poverty in the United States. Both qualitative and quantitative data were used for this study compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau and other affiliated agencies. Library resources included electronic and computer database searches. Policy analysis research studies from Democrat, Republican, and Independent Think Tanks, economists, and scholars were assessed. The main research question is: What is the impact of long-term anti-poverty policies in the United States? The sub-questions are: What are major historical perspectives and arguments on government funded anti-poverty policies? What are the major root causes of poverty in the United States? What is the relationship between the economy and government, and does it result in income disparity? What are major anti-poverty strategies implemented to decrease U.S. poverty? When the U.S. government waged war on poverty in the 1960s, poverty was defined by income. Therefore, the obvious solution was to correct the income shortfall. This brings us to an equation seen throughout this study: POVERTY + MORE MONEY = RELIEF. Decades of research and experience with antipoverty programs have made it clear that poverty involves more complex, interrelated and sometimes-intractable socioeconomic, family, and individual issues; in addition, putting millions of dollars into long-term government funded programs is not the absolute solution. In reality, this money put into social programs have in many ways led to more poverty, as well as state and federal deficits. John F. Kennedy once stated in the early 1960s: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." The more long-term social programs are increased, the more chances generations of Americans will continue to be trapped in a continuous cycle of becoming more needy, dependent, and poor, which does not help the individual, their family, the American public, and certainly not the United States economy.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Task Force on Antipoverty in the District of Columbia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Economic assistance, Domestic |
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Author | : Robert H. Haveman |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1483214079 |
A Decade of Federal Antipoverty Programs: Achievements, Failures, and Lessons presents papers on the war on poverty, dealing with its origins, its education, health, and income maintenance programs, and its community action, legal services, and antidiscrimination policies. The book discusses poverty and social policy in the 1960s and 1970s; the social and political context of the war on poverty; and a decade of policy developments in the income-maintenance system. The text also describes a decade of policy developments in improving education and training for low-income populations; a decade of policy developments in providing health care for low-income families; and the mobilization of low-income communities through community action. 10 Years of legal services for the poor; and a decade of policy-developments in equal opportunities in employment and housing are also considered. Historians and people involved in political sciences will find the book invaluable.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Economic assistance, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Task Force on Antipoverty in the District of Columbia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 868 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Walter Fairleigh Dodd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : District of Columbia |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Bank Supervision and Insurance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Banking law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert J. Lampman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Economic assistance, Domestic |
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Author | : Romain D. Huret |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501712179 |
In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté?, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Angell's translation of Huret's work brings to light for an English-speaking audience this critical set of intellectuals working in federal government, academic institutions, and think tanks. Their efforts to create a policy bureaucracy to support federal socio-economic action spanned from the last days of the New Deal to the late 1960s when President Richard M. Nixon implemented the Family Assistance Plan. Often toiling in obscurity, this cadre of experts waged their own war not only on poverty but on the American political establishment. Their policy recommendations, as Huret clearly shows, often militated against the unscientific prejudices and electoral calculations that ruled Washington D.C. politics. The Experts' War on Poverty highlights the metrics, research, and economic and social facts these social scientists employed in their work, and thereby reveals the unstable institutional foundation of successive executive efforts to grapple with gross social and economic disparities in the United States. Huret argues that this internal war, coming at a time of great disruption due to the Cold War, undermined and fractured the institutional system officially directed at ending poverty. The official War on Poverty, which arguably reached its peak under President Lyndon B. Johnson, was thus fomented and maintained by a group of experts determined to fight poverty in radical ways that outstripped both the operational capacity of the federal government and the political will of a succession of presidents.