The Future of Poverty
Harrington, Michael
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...Michael Novak examines roughly the same body of thought with an eye to discovering the extent to which the church has set itself on the side of "liberal institutions," if not quite of liberal ideology...
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...ogy of vision caused by large numbers of who have been left behind by progress, Today it is not so much the social-people moving to the suburbs and losing many of them black, a fair number "un- geographical structure of the society but contact with the poor who, in great num- documented" and working in the renas- sophisticated theories, often buttressed bers, remained in the central cities...
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...The poor, in general, receive less in the United States than in any other Western industrial democracy and, as we have seen, their real living standard de- clined throughout the seventies and the eighties, The villain in the piece is not to be found in the poor -- who lost more in cash income than any other group during the last four years -- but in the rich who so successfully avoid paying their fair share...
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...I would hope we will turn to the poor out of a sense of justice and compassion...
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...Ideal for introductory courses...
...But with impressive statistics and charts, that was, then, a shock to discover the misery the media have, On the whole, done an convince us that we are not really seeing excellent job of keeping the images of what in fact we see...
...black males, Parsons argues, did indeed disincentives --while merely wrong on Albany, New York 12208 leave the labor force, but the trend the name of the program...
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...Her voice was flat and hollow at nothing anybody could do, he said...
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...But why did blacks re- single error has to do with blacks' spond more than whites...
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...Com-mentary, suggestions, and prayers for the weekday readings of the three-year liturgical cycle...
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...First lose in trying to get in a program that had the anti-poverty laws, then the flight a relatively high rejection rate...
...I had an impulse to hang up...
...A collection of experiences of IN FAITH Proclaiming Your Wonders F INALLY, MURRAY'S most startling right to benefits...
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...I am not thinking of his by-now standard rebukes to the church for "utopianism" or of his own truly utopian (and statistically garbled) approach to the poverty problem, but of his sections on Bishop yon Ketteler, Heinrich Pesch, Oswald von Nell-Breuning, and the German "solidarist" school whose critique of capitalism and individualism was an important source of papal teach- ings...
...he actually increased the federal tax burden of the poor...
...The future of poverty MICHAEL HARRINGTON that persisted on either side of the feder- is still great confusion about poverty, I ally subsidized highways that led from even a tendency for "informed" opinion N THE 1950S, Americans literally did the office to the new homes on the urban to say that it has been greatly exagger- not see the poverty which existed in periphery...
...For Dorr, being on the side of the poor or oppressed finally boils down to being vigorously opposed to Western capitalism...
...Misery, includin people receiving disability payments ing physical infLrmity, explains much of It provides a framework and under a program initiated by President the trend --not "coddling" by sixties supplement to his wife's pre- Eisenhower in the fifties, Murray quotes welfare programs, Indeed, Murray him- viously published diary, Raissa's (in a footnote) a definition from an article self cites the effect of this process --the Journal (ISBN 0-87343-041-7...
...Post hog ergo If, Parsons concluded, one statistically The private diaries and reminis- propter hoc...
...If the Democratic party buys some version of a modified "flat tax," i.e., if it abandons the principle, so often honored in the breach, of progressive federal taxation, that will not simply be a blow to equity...
...The cities are, more mediate vision but rather of how to inter- In part, that was a result of a new sociol- than ever before, warehouses for those pret what the eyes -- or the media -- see...
...I S TRANGELYENOUGH,I am not dishear- tened, not even by an election which Ronald Reagan appears likely to win...
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...was, he holds, a pronounced tendency First, physical disabilities were more for blacks to remove themselves from the prevelant among blacks than whites...
...what was commonly --but wrongly In the 1980s that sociological trend The problem today is not one of imthought to be an "affluent society...
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...A general introduction to world hunger, with emphasis on the negCO.Oll SkJ;~Imuetler C P lected role of public policy...
...We talked I listened to the phone buzz for a while and then dialed about the possible effects growing up with a hernia might have County Hospital...
...to draw a Winston), is a National Co-Chair of the sion has regularly visited the soup kitch- map of the statistical maze...
...He died on the pervisor who took the position that since Mrs...
...Dual Degree: Master of Music/Master of Arts in Religion Address inquiries to: Yale Institute of Sacred Music 409 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06510 203 436-2915 I I Commonweal: 630 lieve that they are over-taxed and pay a disproportionate percentage of the cost of welfare...
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...Father Champlin considers what is common and unique in many prayer styles and provides a useful handbook on the whys and hows of praying...
...beneficiaries from 687,000 in 1960 to An addition to the sources of The reader may well wonder why 1 4,352,000 in 1975 -- without inquiring valuable information on the point so emphatically to a mere footnote...
...into how this affects his other numbers...
...Are ten-year-old son, Irwin, He had a hernia, she explained, and you all gonna pay for it...
...For Novak, supporting "liberal institutions" finally boils down to supporting that very same capitalism...
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...To be sure, I am profoundly disturbed by the new ideological and statistical attack on the poor...
...In three volumes...
...At one point in tematic difference in behavior between continuing through his marriage to Raissa until advanced age...
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...tell the undertaker to call me and I'll make out the performed now or wait until he was older...
...The middle isn't affluent and any effective strategy has to be based on taking welfare away from the rich rather than raising the taxes of the middle...
...our budget for next month.., do you have to take Irwin off "Yes...
...Ideal for use in homilies or for meditation...
...Revised and updated for the 1980s...
...But those working- and middle-class people draw a completely erroneous con- clusion from their justified anger: that since they pay "too much" for the poor, the poor are to blame...
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...The Wall able reluctance that I really tried, in The The Other America, Socialism, and The New Street Journal has published some of the New American Poverty (Holt, Rinehart American Poverty (Holt, Rinehart, and finest reportage in this area, and televi- and Winston, $17.95,271 pp...
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...And the people in the middle made no gains --the second quintile from the bottom suffered a net income loss, the third a slight gain, the top quintile went up by a hefty percen- tage --which is usual...
...I didn't understand astounded at receiving his back rent, got us a good deal on a them...
...Her landlord, throat but that it didn't work...
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...The point is, the political strategy for a renewed assault on poverty cannot be predicated on the as- sumption that the "affluent" middle is going to exercise noblesse oblige toward those suffering at the bottom...
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...That trend pre-dated Ronald Reagan and existed under Democratic admini- strations, but Reagan has clearly made the very worst of a bad situation...
...Donal Dorr examines papal social thought with an eye to discovering "the extent to which the church has committed itself to being on the side of those who are poor or oppressed...
...sec- labor market at precisely that point in ond, the concentration of black workers time -- 1968 -- when the misguided job in poverty jobs meant that they had less to disincentives were put into practice...
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...She was overruled, however, and the "I guess they did...
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...two Praise You, 0 Lord...
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