On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:20:57AM -0700, Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
> ``..Who was voting to expand the U.S. welfare state in the 1960s and
> 1970? And who was it who promised to end welfare as -we know it - and
> did?..'' Doug
>
> ``...First, as noted, there were more Dems in the 1960s to make those
> votes. But if you look at the tax and budget bills of 1993, you see a
> very progressive set of policies-- massively expanding the EITC while
> raising taxes on the wealthy to fund expansion of a number of other
> programs...'' Nathan Newman
>
> ----------
>
> As for EITC and the liberalism of the DP, back in the days, one of the
> most hotly contested programs under OEO was not a cheepy tax credit,
> but direct income subsidy to literally pay the poor up to modest
> working class income levels. These projects were attempted in a very
> few selected regions.
>
> The project was an experiment to test if or how employment patterns
> changed under the impact of direct federal income subsidies (not
> AFDC). Most of the participants got jobs and moved out of poverty. In
> other words the experiment worked just fine. Of course it was killed
> by the economics experts at OEO as unfeasible. (This might have
> become the model used under Clinton's welfare reform, minus the
> the most important part, which was direct reverse income support...)
>
> Here is a question for you both. Who did Nixon appoint to head OEO
> after his re-election and how long did OEO last after that?
>
> And here's another one. Guess who ran the economic analysis wing with
> the charge of making OEO projects `accountable' and pushed to kill the
> community action projects, including the income subsidy projects
> during the late Johnson administration?
>
> These are famous names today. They are heels. One big one, one little
> one. One Repugnant and one Demicrap. And here's the give away
> hint. One man, one woman.
>
> [I don't know this stuff off the top of my head. I am reading about it
> in Alice O'Connor, Poverty Knowledge. I would recommend this book to
> anyone interested in sociology, poverty, and public policy...]
>
> CG
>
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