Anti-Job Quote Of The Week 16

Ever since President Johnson's Great Society, social programs have failed to end poverty-- precisely because they provide services instead of adequate income. After all, poor people can't eat caseworkers. Nixon's plan for guaranteed income was voted down by a coalition of both left- and right-wing politicians in 1972. Since then, the liberal left has stuck to redefining services, hoping to secure bigger government contracts for themselves and ignoring the ceaseless tumble in the purchasing power of welfare benefits.
from
CITY LIT: NUTS TO SOUP
A book review of Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlements by Janet Poppendieck, 1998
By Theresa Funiciello