Community and Social Policy

Background of the Issue

It has been 40 years since President Johnson 's administration assert battle against poverty in the United States , yet still , progress remains sluggish . Mid -1970s poses insecurity in the living status of the non-elderly . This is when the country 's economy faces extensive inflation , soaring unemployment rates , and waning real wages (Danziger 2005 . The United States has fallen victim to globalization as specific trends of inequality and social segmentation confront it . In 1950s and up to early 1970s , poverty and income inequity had momentous decline after which

both have reached their weakest . Compared to previous generations , today 's poor marked the younger populace and rather than unemployed , these are the working group . These new outline of inequality and poverty - children and the working populace - contradict with growth and concurred with falling unemployment since half way through 1990s , a once believed improbable upshot (Hytrek et al . 2008

The United States has geared away from combating poverty as its national priority . This was mirrored in certain shifts in the welfare policy that is raising the work efforts of the poor instead of increasing their income . Political efforts to resolve gap between the presence and absence of needs has weakened . As a result , present generation appears to lose interest in upholding welfare policies unless it brings job to the marginalized (Danziger 2005

This brief seeks to ascertain the flagging antipoverty drives of the US government including its impact to the US community . Likewise , it proposes ingenious ways to revitalize...