Posted by Dave Burns on March 1, 2006, 12:10 pm, in reply to "The New Deal" Of course, The Great Society programs enacted under LBJ when poverty became a major issue again in the 1960s built upon and in some ways expanded the scope of the New Deal, but both of these visions have come under assault and many Great Society and New Deal programs/legislation have been scaled back, poorly funded, or allowed to lapse during the Clinton and Bush administrations--making the modest goals of the New Deal and Great Society almost impossible to achieve due to the swing to the right in both political parties.
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I do not know if I would go so far as to day that New Deal programs have failed to help people who are struggling to survive. Some scholars have taken a rather dim view of welfare programs (Regulating the Poor by Frances Fox Piven/Richard A. Cloward), but the idea that the state is responsible for the material well-being of the people is an idea that offers a space for the poor and their advocates to seek assistence, aid and air their greivences.
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