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27 May 2019
The Cloward-Piven plan was designed to draw attention to poverty levels by encouraging people to sign up for social safety programs.

It was a plan that a couple of sociologists suggested, and the motivation for it was the realization that there are tons and tons of people who are living at poverty levels that aren't taking advantage of social safety programs. For a long time, I was probably eligible for food stamps, and I didn't take advantage of that program. So what they were suggesting was people being made aware of programs that they qualify for so that they would sign up, and so it would become a very large problem. problem. The reason for this was not to bankrupt a state or bankrupt the country. What it was was to draw attention to the idea that there are so many people who are living in abject poverty. It was, an attempt to make the system, make the government recognize the tremendous size of the problem by making it their problem.