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Social Solutions to Poverty: America’s Struggle to Build a Just Society. Presenter Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton. Three Ineffective Solutions. Three Ineffective Solutions. Moral Cures “Third Annual Report,” Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor (1819) Poor Houses
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Social Solutions to Poverty: America’s Struggle to Build a Just Society PresenterDr. Scott Myers-Lipton
Three Ineffective Solutions • Moral Cures “Third Annual Report,” Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor (1819) • Poor Houses “Report of the Committee on Pauper Laws of This Commonwealth,” Quincy Committee (1821) • Charity Organization Society “Charity Organization and the Buffalo Plan,” S. Humphreys Gurteen (1882)
Top Ten List 10. Old-Age PensionAgrarian Justice, Thomas Paine (1796)
Top Ten List 9. Living Wage“Address to New York Ladies,” Matthew Carey (1830)
Top Ten List 8. 40 Acres and a Mule“The Freedmen’s Bureau,” W.E.B. Du Bois (1901)
Top Ten List 7. Anarchistic Communism“We Seek Liberty for the Slaves,” Albert Parsons (1886)
Top Ten List • Settlement Houses“Public Activities and Investigations,” Jane Addams (1911)
Top Ten List 5. Redistribute Wealth“Share the Wealth,” Huey Long (1935)
Top Ten List 4. End Hunger“Eliminating Hunger in America,” Physician Task Force on Hunger in America (1985)
Top Ten List 3. Strengthen Power of Unions“Labor Leaders and Allies Call for Repeal of Taft-Hartley Act,” Tony Mazzocchi, Bruce Klipple, Kay McVay, Ralph Nader, and Thomas Geoghegan (2002)
Top Ten List 2. Public Work “Coxey and His Aims,” Jacob Coxey (1894), Civil Works,” Harry Hopkins (1936), “Where Do We Go From Here,” Martin Luther King (1967)
Top Ten List 1. Economic Bill of Human Rights“State of the Union Address,” Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1944) and “Showdown for Nonviolence,” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
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