The Cloward-Piven strategy is a political strategy of Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, then both sociologists and political activists at Columbia University School of Social Work, described in a 1966 article in The Nation. The two argued that many Americans who do not qualify for social benefits, and welfare of the registration of a political crisis, a trip to American politicians, especially the Democratic Party to force the legislation to adopt “to Create Create a national guaranteed income would be. “

Cloward and Piven The article on forcing the Democratic Party, which in 1966 controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress, the federal government take steps to help the poor concentrated. They argued that a complete register of voters for Wellfare “bureaucratic interference in the social institutions and fiscal disturbances produce regional and local authorities” that would “deepen the divisions between the elements in the big city Democratic coalition, the remaining white middle class white working class, ethnic minority groups and the growing poor.

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