American history Quote by James T. Patterson

The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally…

— Charles Murray

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got…

— Clint Eastwood

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was…

— Barbara Castle

The over-60s have to be seen less as receivers - of welfare, of help - or targeted consumers, and more as participants, both in…

— Alexander De Croo

By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and…

— Doug Bandow

Since the 1960s, when America finally became fully accountable for its past, deference toward all groups with any claim to past or present victimization…

— Shelby Steele

“For anyone born after 1945, the welfare state and its institutions were not a solution to earlier dilemmas: they were simply the normal conditions…

— Tony Judt

“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early 1960s: the…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people…

— Thomas Sowell

“By the early ’70s it would have appeared unthinkable to contemplate unraveling the social services, welfare provisions, state-funded cultural and educational resources and much…

— Tony Judt

“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously, that a…

— Kathryn Edin