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The Cloward-Piven Strategy: Using Race, Poverty & Voter Rights to Destroy America’s Economy

Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were Ivy League political activists with an ironic concern for the poor. Both professors at Columbia University School of Social Strategy authored an article in 1966 titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty” featured that year in The Nation magazine.