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This 4 page paper reviews three articles based on the premise that the US government is waging a war against the poor in the country. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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it is evident that efforts have been made toward easing the situation for those who are living below the poverty line in the United States, what started out to be
a war on poverty turned out to be a war on the poor. The articles reviewed in this paper example how this came to happen in one the most affluent
nation in the world. In the article, The War Against the Poor, Herbet Gans, a professor of sociology at Columbia University, states that the war on the poor was
a multifaceted attack and as such was not noticed by the individual sectors causing the damage. However, the result had a devastating effect on the poor. For example, Gans states
that private enterprises shipped their labor overseas, reducing the already small unskilled labor positions in this country. Secondly, he states that the government, with its limitations on welfare, effectively limited
welfare benefits to the middle class(Gans 1992). Lastly, he states, the programs which were designed to give the poor a hand up, not a hand out, such as housing programs,
back to work programs and re-education programs, have disappeared. And, on the pro/con analysis of the reform, the progressives who had a heavy hand in the restructuring of the
system assumed that poor people were not finding work because they were parasitic in nature, preferring to be lazy and let society sustain them. So, in order to counteract this
they determined that welfare would only be extended to families with children for a shorter period of time, thus, the theory went, giving someone a hand up instead of a
hand out. When the changes were made, what was found was that women were the hardest hit. Many times the women were single parents without job skills, education or ability
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