After 60 years of guaranteeing benefits to welfare recipients, the federal government wants them to go to work. Has the new policy succeed . We are the richest most prosperous nation on earth. Yet, in the midst of plenty, great disparities in wealth. Reducing poverty what have we done . With the help of economic analyst richard gill well investigate that question on this edition of economics u a. Im david schoumacher. There have always been people left out of the American Dream the young, the old the ill, the untrained. And those whove just lost out in a competitive economy which has losers as well as winners. Today we take it for granted that the government has a role to play in reducing poverty and we argue only about how and how much. But before food stamps and Public Housing before government aid to the elderly what happened when the elderly faced the Great Depression . I see 1 3 of a nation illhoused, illclad illnourished. Schoumacher the Great Depression cut too wide and too deep
Untrained, uneducated, and unemployable. How could they get a place at the economic starting line . Welfare reform. After 60 years of guaranteeing benefits to welfare recipients, the federal government wants them to go to work. Has the new policy succeeded . We are the richest most prosperous nation on earth. Yet, in the midst of plenty, great disparities in wealth. Reducing poverty what have we done . With the help of economic analyst richard gill well investigate that question on this edition of economics u a. Im david schoumacher. There have always been people left out of the American Dream the young, the old the ill, the untrained. And those whove just lost out in a competitive economy which has losers as well as winners. Today we take it for granted that the government has a role to play in reducing poverty and we argue only about how and how much. But before food stamps and Public Housing before government aid to the elderly what happened when the elderly faced the Great Depressi
Reducing poverty what have we done . With the help of economic analyst richard gill well investigate that question on this edition of economics u a. Im david schoumacher. There have always been people left out of the American Dream the young, the old the ill, the untrained. And those whove just lost out in a competitive economy which has losers as well as winners. Today we take it for granted that the government has a role to play in reducing poverty and we argue only about how and how much. But before food stamps and Public Housing before government aid to the elderly what happened when the elderly faced the Great Depression . I see 1 3 of a nation illhoused, illclad illnourished. Schoumacher the Great Depression cut too wide and too deep for businessasusual. The depression demanded new answers to poverty. No group suffered more than the elderly. Savings accounts were wiped out, pensions were rare family resources, gone. The needs of the elderly have always carried a special urgency.
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