anti-poverty

And, indeed, most provincial governments are seized with designing new, long-term anti-poverty strategies.

CBC | Top Stories News 2011

And, indeed, most provincial governments are seized with designing new, long-term anti-poverty strategies.

CBC | Top Stories News 2011

Congress -- insisting on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans that in turn drive up the deficit -- is calling for reductions in anti-poverty programs to pay for those tax cuts for the wealthy.

Rev. Chuck Currie: President Obama Should Outline Plan To Reduce Poverty By Half Rev. Chuck Currie 2011

After years of working with community organizing groups and helping devise anti-poverty strategies, Cloward and Piven concluded that a successful anti-poverty movement had to combine grassroots protest with electoral politics.

Peter Dreier: Glenn Beck's Attacks on Frances Fox Piven Trigger Death Threats Peter Dreier 2011

Even the tax compromise with the GOP that was reached before Christmas includes anti-poverty measures that will help lift more Americans out of poverty.

Rev. Chuck Currie: President Obama Should Outline Plan To Reduce Poverty By Half Rev. Chuck Currie 2011

In that 6,327-word article, Cloward (a professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work at the time ) and Piven (at the time an anti-poverty researcher and activist who joined the Columbia faculty later that year), proposed organizing the poor to demand welfare benefits in order to pressure the federal government to expand the nation's social safety net and establish a guaranteed national income.

Peter Dreier: Glenn Beck's Attacks on Frances Fox Piven Trigger Death Threats Peter Dreier 2011

Neither that defeat nor an ineffective run for president in 1976 diminished Shriver's legacy as one of the nation's leading peacemakers and anti-poverty warriors through the turbulent 1960s.

Sargent Shriver, first Peace Corps director, dies 2011

In that 6,327-word article, Cloward (a professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work at the time ) and Piven (at the time an anti-poverty researcher and activist who joined the Columbia faculty later that year), proposed organizing the poor to demand welfare benefits in order to pressure the federal government to expand the nation's social safety net and establish a guaranteed national income.

Peter Dreier: Glenn Beck's Attacks on Frances Fox Piven Trigger Death Threats Peter Dreier 2011

Nevertheless, under his leadership, the OEO developed and implemented signature anti-poverty programs that still exist.

'Warrior for peace and against poverty' Patricia Sullivan 2011

After years of working with community organizing groups and helping devise anti-poverty strategies, Cloward and Piven concluded that a successful anti-poverty movement had to combine grassroots protest with electoral politics.

Peter Dreier: Glenn Beck's Attacks on Frances Fox Piven Trigger Death Threats Peter Dreier 2011