desert dude
Well-Known Member
It is astonishing how you can stay informed if you read a book occasionally.Welfare state? What planet are you posting from?
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[h=3]Post-1960s expansion of the US welfare state[/h] Main articles: Great Society and Social programs in the United States
Economist Thomas Sowell argues that the significant expansion of federal welfare under the Great Society programs beginning in the 1960s contributed to the destruction of African American families.[SUP][12][/SUP] Sowell has argued that "the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life."[SUP][12]"[/SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure