Cloward And Piven Plan

Cloward And Piven Plan:Cloward-Piven strategy of political strategy, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, both social scientists and policy makers at the Columbia University School of Social Work, 1966 article in The Nation, entitled “Weight of the Poor: Strategies for the eradication of poverty. 2 argued that many Americans who are eligible for welfare do not receive benefits, and that the drive towards inclusion will create a political crisis that will force U.S. politicians, especially from the Democratic Party to adopt a law “to establish a guaranteed national income.
Cloward and Piven article is aimed at forcing the Democratic Party, which in 1966 controlled by the president and both houses of Congress to take federal action to help the poor. They argued that the full scope of persons entitled to the security “will produce bureaucratic violations in the field of social security institutions and the financial irregularities in local and state governments” that “deepen the existing differences between the elements of the big city of the Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle-class white working class ethnic groups and a growing minority of the poor. To avoid a further weakening of this historic coalition of national Democratic administration will be forced to advance federal solution to the problem of poverty that would prevail local failures welfare of local class and racial conflicts and dilemmas of local revenues. ” They wrote:
The ultimate goal of this strategy for the destruction of poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income will be questioned by some. Because the ideal of individual social and economic mobility has deep roots, even the activists seem to want to call for national programs to eradicate poverty, the direct redistribution of income .
The authors are pinning their hopes on the creation of violations in the Democratic Party. “Conservative Republicans are ready to recite evils of public welfare, and they will probably be the first to raise a hue and cry. But deeper and more politically speaking of conflict will take place within the democratic coalition,” they write. White – a working class ethnic groups, and many of the middle class – will be instituted against the ghetto, the poor, while liberal groups, which until recently reassured that the poor little … perhaps support of motion . With the conflict, writing a political crisis at the local party apparatus, thus, has become acute as welfare rolls are mounted and the burden on local budgets have become more serious. ”
Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews wrote that Cloward and Piven proposed to create a crisis in the current social security system – through the use of the gap between law and practice of wealth – that ultimately lead to its collapse and be replaced by a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish this goal by educating the poor of their rights to social assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in fact, overloading an already overloaded bureaucracy. Historian Robert Weir argues that the original purpose of this strategy to lead to a crisis in social security system, which require radical reform. An article in The New York Times in 1970, studied the social welfare system and discussed the impact of Cloward-Piven strategy . Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Forum, said in 1982 said that this strategy can be effective because “the Great Society programs created a huge army of full-time liberal activists whose salaries are funded by taxes conservative workers.”  Robert Chandler said : the “socialist challenge to the use of poor and disadvantaged people of society as a sacrificial” shock troops “in accordance with the Cloward Piven strategy, was demonstrated in 1975 when the new prospective recipients of social flooding New York with the payment of claims that may have contributed to the bankruptcy of state governance. ” Other observers credit the city for bankruptcy due to mismanagement policies encouraging” often maturing short-term debt that left officials constantly scrambling to pay off the loans.