Cloward–Piven strategy

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The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading theU.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty". Cloward and Piven were a married couple who were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in the liberal^[1] magazine The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty".^[2]

The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty

This article appeared in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation.

http://www.thenation.com/article/weight-poor-strategy-end-poverty