#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/
The NationHow Inequality Was Redefined as “Poverty”—Letting Capitalism Off the HookIn the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal responsibility.