SOCL 4331 Study Guide - Job Corps, Working Poor, Civilian Conservation Corps

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Chapter 11: reversing the race to the bottom poverty and policy. One-third of new york city"s homeless population was employed. 1996 congress and the president agreed on a welfare reform law that gave states more latitude in their own welfare systems. People weren"t thrown onto the streets - yet poverty remained. People got jobs but stayed poor in low-wage, no-benefit jobs. The challenge of the margins: antipoverty programs. Ancient kings saw it as their duty to tend to the deserving poor widows and orphans. People generally believed that drunkenness, idleness, and sin were at the root of poverty. But thought that the poor who were willing to change deserved a second chance. Sunday schools to teach academic skills to kids who had to work during the week. United states has the most active social programs in the world. We generally believe that poverty is the result of personal failings and government help to the poor is unnecessary and unwise.

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