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Social Solutions to Poverty

Great Barrington Books

Bringing the old and new together
in the spirit of W. E. B. Du Bois

An imprint edited by Charles Lemert

Titles Available

Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power, and People
by Avery F. Gordon (2004)

Going Down for Air: A Memoir in Search of a Subject
by Derek Sayer (2004)

The Souls of Black Folk,
100th Anniversary Edition
by W. E. B. Du Bois, with commentaries by Manning Marable, Charles Lemert, and Cheryl Townsend Gilkes (2004)

Sociology After the Crisis, Updated Edition
by Charles Lemert (2004)

Subject to Ourselves
by Anthony Elliot (2004)

The Protestant Ethic Turns 100:
Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis
edited by William H. Swatos, Jr., and Lutz Kaelber (2005)

Postmodernism Is Not What You Think
by Charles Lemert (2005)

Discourses on Liberation: An Anatomy of Critical Theory
by Kyung-Man Kim (2005)

Seeing Sociologically: The Routine Grounds of Social Action
by Harold Garfinkel, edited and introduced by Anne Warfield Rawls (2005)

The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois
by Alford A. Young, Jr., Manning Marable, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Charles Lemert, and Jerry G. Watts (2006)

Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times
by Tom Hayden with Contemporary Reflections by Stanley Aronowitz, Richard Flacks, and Charles Lemert (2006)

Critique for What? Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies
by Joel Pfister (2006)

Everyday Life and the State
by Peter Bratsis (2006)

Social Solutions to Poverty: Americas Struggle to Build a Just Society
edited with contributions by Scott J. Myers-Lipton

Forthcoming
Thinking the Unthinkable:
An Introduction to Social Theories
by Charles Lemert

Social Solutions to Poverty

Americas Struggle to Build a Just Society

edited with contributions by Scott J. Myers-Lipton
foreword by Charles Lemert

This book is dedicated to the people who lived,
and sometimes died, struggling to end poverty.

First published 2006 by Paradigm Publishers

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright 2006 by Scott J. Myers-Lipton

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Myers-Lipton, Scott J.

Social solutions to poverty: Americas struggle to build a just society / Scott J. Myers-Lipton. p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-59451-210-0 (hc : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-59451-210-8 (hc : alk. paper)

ISBN-13: 978-1-59451-211-7 (pb : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-59451-211-6 (pb : alk. paper)

1. PovertyUnited StatesHistory. 2. Social justiceUnited StatesHistory. 3. Social reformersUnited StatesHistory. 4. Social movementsUnited States. 5. Economic assistance, DomesticUnited StatesHistory. I. Title.

HC110.P6M94 2006
362.552dc22 2006012368

Designed and Typeset by Straight Creek Bookmakers.

ISBN 13 : 978-1-59451-210-0 (hbk)
ISBN 13 : 978-1-59451-211-7 (pbk)

Contents

Michel de Montaigne

, Louis Armand de Lom dArce Lahontan

, J. Hector St. John de Crvecoeur

, Thomas Paine

, The General Council of Indians at Miami Rapids

, Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor

, Quincy Committee

, Wilson Pierson and George McFarlane

, Frances Wright

Thomas Skidmore

, Tecumseh

, W. E. B. Du Bois

, Sitting Bull [Tatanka Iyotanka]

, Terrence Powderly

Susan B. Anthony

, Albert Parsons

, S. Humphreys Gurteen

, Jane Addams

, Julia Lathrop

, Booker T. Washington

, Henry Vincent

, Arthur Parker [Gawaso Wanneh]

, Eugene Debs

, Herbert Hoover

, Dorothy Day

, Harry Hopkins

, Huey Long

, Upton Sinclair

, Frances Perkins

, Ernest Lundeen

Martin Luther King, Jr.

, Malcolm X

, Sargent Shriver

, Johnnie Tillmon

, Cesar Chavez

, Indians of All Nations

, Physician Task Force on Hunger in America

, Douglas A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley

, Robert Pollin

, Tony Mazzocchi, Bruce J. Klipple, Kay McVay, Ralph Nader, and Thomas Geoghegan

, Brian McWilliams

, William Julius Wilson

, Randall Robinson

, George W. Bush

, Michael Sherraden

, Carrie Dann

You have the poor with you always. No line on the subject is more abused. In point of fact, the poor have always been with us. Their presence, however, contradicts one of the more fundamental principles of the civilization that too often misreads this ancient saying as justification for resignation before the fact. The source of the words meant something quite different.

You have the poor with you always. The words were first and most memorably uttered at the near mid-point of the ancient Greco-Roman civilizations from which modern liberalism drew its inspiration and many of its moral and legal ideas. From Cleisthenes of Athens, who around 510 BCE laid the political foundations for the Golden Age of Greece, and Augustine of Hippo, who interpreted the fall of Rome in 410 CE, the principles of fairness and equality certainly suffered an uneven history. But, without ancient Greeces institutions of democratic politics and their codification in Roman law, it would be hard to imagine how the eighteenth century Enlightenment could have defined the varieties of modern liberal theories of individual rights and social responsibilities. Yet, as any schoolchild will tell you, the long Greco-Roman millennium was punctuated by war, decline and revival, slavery, and human miseries of all the normal kinds.

The saying in question appeared at one of the more tumultuous moments in that long, uneven historyearly in the Age of Augustus Caesar, when the Republic was restored to put an end to corruption and decline in the first century of Roman rule. Even then, those living outside the protection of Roman civilization enjoyed a kind of benign neglect, if not the more robust benefits of citizenship. In

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