Organizing ADC Recipients for Political Action
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Authors
Johnston, Sue
Issue Date
1978
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Thesis
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en_US
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The particular focus of my paper is on the ADC
program. I have chosen to examine ADC as a case in point
for a variety of reasons. The ADC program is the largest
Federally funded public assistance program. It is the most
controversial of the programs and it has characteristically
attempted to manipulate and control the consumer through
more non-need eligibility requirements than any other Federal
welfare program. Furthermore, the ADC program caters to a
clientele that is predominantly black, separated, divorced
or unwed mothers - people who enjoy little political
support or legitimacy in our society. It is for these reasons
that, in my opinion, the recipients of ADC need to develop
a means of asserting their interests and controlling the
government, more than any other group of welfare recipients.
In this paper, I hope to take a very coherent approach
to the problems of ADC and the participation of its recipients
in the program. I will first examine the history and structure
of the ADC program in the hopes of demonstrating how ADC
recipients have been manipulated in the past, and why it is
so important for them to organize to express their interests
now. I also hope in this first section to point out some
of the resources and methods which have been used in the
past to create change in the ADC program.
Secondly, I plan to discuss some of the problems of
organizing the poor, in hopes of reaching some conclusions
about the problems which they face in becoming politically
active and how these problems can be overcome.
Finally, I plan to examine two theories of organizing
the poor, comparing and contrasting them. In so doing,
I hope to draw some of my own conclusions about what sort of
theoretical approach should be taken in organizing the
welfare poor.
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