Articles on the politics of poverty including current and past issues of welfare and the proper role of government in the war on poverty.
The modern poverty industrial complex began with the war on poverty sixty years ago. It started with the grandest of intentions, the biggest of hearts. … Read More »Revealing The Poverty Industrial Complex: Profiting From Misery
Have you ever wondered why homelessness is increasing? Even in times of low employment? Benjamin Franklin believed that the easier the government made living in… Read More »The Experts Have Made A Homelessness Trap
We want to be good warriors in the war on poverty, but we miss the mark without understanding these simple but startling poverty facts. … Read More »Startling Poverty Facts Every American Should Know
I met a woman in public housing who said the biggest problem in the war on poverty was Poverty Pimps – those who profited from… Read More »CTC expansion – The Old Bait and Switch
Welfare growth in America has been dramatic over the past 50 years, New programs have steadily been added, and their scope has broadened. Here is… Read More »Welfare Growth
What has happened in America with Covid and work? Has there been a shift of not as many people working and businesses being understaffed? The… Read More »Covid and Work
FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, Reagan, and Clinton Here are various passages from five presidents addressing poverty and welfare, but inter dispersed in three paragraphs. After the… Read More »Five Presidents On Welfare and Poverty- In A Single Voice
Pauperism is an old term to describe the state of being a pauper, a very poor person who cannot fend for themselves. What is the… Read More »Pauperism in the 1880s – is it still here?