SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Friedrich Hayek, Civilian Conservation Corps, Working Poor
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Reversing the race to the bottom: poverty and policy. Rise of reagan, thatcher, mulroney, harris (neoliberalism is important in this discussion on social policy) Free-market ideology of reagan and thatcher (2017: 308) Cuts in government funding for social services. Emphasis on private-market delivery of health care and education. In a privatized market economy the life chances of the poor decline. Studies show that a combination of eroding employment opportunities and the retrenchment of publicly funded social services have led to the rise in poverty (sernau, 2017:300) Decrease in people taking welfare didn"t end poverty. People were doing bad jobs, working poor therefore, work alone isn"t the answer. New deal: targeted unemployed, poor families, minorities and anyone who roosevelt thought. Work progress administration was getting a raw deal (sernau,2017: 283) Great depression is when people noticed the poor. Prior to this if poor, they went to church, state did nothing.
