Anti-Poverty Programs

Paper Summary:

The paper describes the best known anti-poverty movement in the United States, the "Poor People's Campaign" (PPC) in the 1960s that eventually failed, and the 2005 "Make Poverty History" (MPH) movement, which is no longer active. The paper looks at the movement's accomplishments, which included the writing off of $40 billion in debt owed by eighteen poor countries by the World Bank. The paper then looks at the views that these efforts to reduce debt for impoverished nations was something of a failure.

Outline:
Antipoverty Program in the U.S.
International Anti-Poverty Program

From the Paper:

"The core issue in this movement was - and is - poverty in America. Indeed, the SCLC of Greater Los Angeles continues this program with collaboration from groups such as the AFL-CIO, LA Unified School District, NAACP, faith communities, Mothers In Action, National Black Business Council, The Los Angeles Sentinel (newspaper), Coop Employment Service, among others. There is an ongoing pre-apprentice program set up by the SCLC of Los Angeles, with programs to train poor people to get jobs as electricians, carpenters, operating engineers, steel workers, pipe fitters, plumbers and crane operators, according to the literature. Recently, the Southern California Edison company funded the pre-apprentice program for one year."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Baptist, Willie; & Damico, Noelle. (2005). Building the New Freedom Church of the Poor. Cross Currents, 55(3), 352-262.
• Chambers, Clarke A. (2001). Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail.American Historical Review, 83(3), 841-843.
• Glennie, Jonathon. (2006). The Myth of Charity: A 2005 Reality Check. Globalizations. 3(2), 258-260.
• Lancet. (2005). Editorial: G8 2005: a missed opportunity for global health. Vol. 365.
• Payne, Anthony. (2006). Blair, Brown and the Gleneagles agenda: making poverty history, orConfronting the global politics of unequal development? International Affairs. 82(5), 917-935.

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