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This 5 page paper provides information about the progressive movement, Roosevelt's New Deal and Great Society policies. Poverty, how it has been addressed and possible solutions, are also discussed. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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At the turn of the century, there was a great class divide. There was little in the way of compensation for the financial problems of the people. It would not
be until the New Deal that people would be compensated when they would find themselves entrenched in economic difficulties. The First World War would soon be upon the nation
and that was not bad for the economy. In fact, as the 1920s began, things would be very good economically, which is why in part the decade was dubbed "The
Roaring Twenties." Just prior to the war, the sixteenth amendment would allow an income tax. The income tax is something still debated and some think it unfair that this
tax exists. Others think that it fairly redistributes income, or at least it should. In fact, some today believe that the income tax should ideally act to take from the
rich and redistribute the wealth to the poor. The income tax is one attempt at the redistribution of the wealth. The other primary plan is the use of social programs.
First, in discussing social progress, it helps to define poverty. What is it? How widespread is it today as compared with earlier in the century? What can be done about
it? Poverty may be understood and defined as either a concept that comes from low income or simply as a consequence of insufficient disposable income ("The concept," 2001). There
are different concepts integral in each definition and that is that indirect poverty is measured in relationship to disposable income but the concept of direct poverty is related to how
low income is related to consumption and lifestyle or other factors that are related to deprivation (2001). No matter how one defines the poverty level, most people know it when
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