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WPA
The Works Progress Administration. Provided almost 8 million jobs between 1935 and 1943 when it was dissolved. It gave much needed work to people in desperate need for money. often the only job they were given was to dig ditches and refill them -
The First Step
The social security act was a law creating what we know today as social security to help protect elderly people and people suffering from a poor economy along with women with dependant children. -
RIght to a lawyer
Miranda rights were introduced meaning if you cant afford a lawyer the state will appoint you one -
Bill Clintons Idea
"People who work hard and play by the rules shouldn't be poor,"
Bill Clintons running campaign slogan in 1992 -
Welfare reform act
ABle bodied people must work to recieve benefits -
End Welfare
On August 22, 1996, President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, fulfilling his longtime commitment to ‘end welfare as we know it.’ As the President said upon signing, “... this legislation provides an historic opportunity to end welfare as we know it and transform our broken welfare system by promoting the fundamental values of work, responsibility, and family.” -
Quotes
The best social program is a good job.
-Bill Clinton
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
-Bill Clinton
Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.
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80% of poor people dont get legal representation
Roughly 1 million cases per year are being rejected because legal aid programs lack the resources to handle them, according to the study, "Documenting the Justice Gap in America," by the Legal Services Corp. (LSC), which funds 143 legal aid programs across the country. -
Statistics
In 2014:46.7 million people (14.8 percent) were in poverty.
15.5 million (21.1 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.4.6 million (10 percent) seniors 65 and older were in poverty.The overall poverty rate according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure is 15.3 percent, as compared with the official poverty rate of 14.8 percent.Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure, there are 48.4 million people living in poverty, nearly 2 million more than are represented by the official population -
Expert Opinion
Major General George Buskirk, adjutant general of the Indiana Army and Air National Guard, echoed the idea that, like a general leading his troops, we need to think more of our collective well-being. Calling poverty one of the “greatest threats” to US security, he added that “we’re bankrupting ourselves if we don’t invest in the next generation.”
