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The article is framed in terms of the 1965 Moynihan report, so I feel I should quote the recommendations Moynihan had at the time: "Moynihan had lots of ideas
by powera 11y ago
The article is framed in terms of the 1965 Moynihan report, so I feel I should quote the recommendations Moynihan had at the time:
"Moynihan had lots of ideas about what government could do—provide a guaranteed minimum income, establish a government jobs program, bring more black men into the military, enable better access to birth control, integrate the suburbs—but none of these ideas made it into the report."
Unfortunately, racists and demagogues eventually decided it was easier to just throw people in prison and be done with it.
- gdwatson 11y agoMoynihan's ideas didn't and don't fit neatly into an existing political coalition on either side of the aisle. Supporters of enlarging social welfare programs and supporters of the traditional, gendered nuclear family as a normative institution are not quite disjoint sets, but the overlap has been shrinking for decades.