Gladwyn d’SouzaSep 11, 2023

#BipartisanTrickleDown: Defining #poverty as a #cultural rather than an #economicproblem comported with the #ColdWar #propaganda that extolled an American #wayoflife in which the promise of #endlessgrowth had supposedly overcome class tensions

#RightToWork #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #guaranteedbasicincome

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/inequality-poverty-unemployment-johnson/

How Inequality Was Redefined as “Poverty”—Letting Capitalism Off the Hook

In the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal responsibility.

The Nation