I am for expanding poverty programs and raising the minimum wage and a strong public education system in poor neighborhoods and a path to citizenship for immigrants because I want them able to join the middle class.
But the ensuing decades have witnessed the consistent characterization of the descendants of enslaved Africans as an unemployable burden on society and the enforcement of what author Michelle Alexander calls "the New Jim Crow," manifest in increasing criminalization, incarceration, expanding poverty, police brutality and denial of other human rights, including voting rights.
The Workers' party is likely to continue expanding poverty-relief programs, raising the minimum wage and maintaining near record levels of employment, while building stronger alliances in South America and among groups of emerging economies, such as Brics.
F.D.R.'s "brain trust" provided the intellectual framework for his New Deal speech at the 1932 Convention and for many of the policies that he enacted in his first term — policies that eased the financial crisis, expanded poverty relief, and created a modern regulatory system.
The recent recession provided powerful proof of the value of this "counter-cyclical" response, as safety net programs averted what would have been a much larger increase in poverty (under an expanded poverty measure that includes the income from these safety net programs), given the doubling of the unemployment rate.
"He took over what was a fairly sleepy institution, focussed on infrastructure development, and he had a lot of ideas about new areas it should expand into: poverty, education, health care, family planning.
Morning: Rev up government workers and ministers at a huge conference in Detroit to cope with expanding signs of poverty.
Despite much media fuss about sub-Saharan Africa's expanding middle class, poverty has risen from 292 million in 1981 to 555 million in 2005, according to the World Bank.
Deindustrialization in areas like central Los Angeles created "deep and expanding pockets of poverty," where cheap rent allowed many Korean merchants set up mom-and-pop shops, Jung said.
Glicken (2011) writes that settlement houses focused on addressing the root causes of social problems such as poverty as well as building community, providing an interpersonal and relational approach, and expanding jobs to combat poverty.
Consequently, poverty and indigence (or extreme poverty) expanded beginning in 1990, as shown in Table 2, and levels remain essentially unchanged today.
