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The '''Cloward - Piven Strategy''' is a plan of action developed by '''Richard Cloward''' and his wife '''[[Frances Fox Piven]]''', the namesakes for the strategy.  The plan entails collapsing the [[U.S.]] economy by overburdening the welfare roles in a way which would leverage unheard of levels of spending and debt to the point of total systemic collapse.  Cloward and Piven wrote about their plan in an article they co-authored in the 1960s called "Mobilizing the Poor: How it Could Be Done." Later, it was published in ''[[The Nation]]'', under the title "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty."

The '''Cloward - Piven Strategy''' is a plan of action developed by '''Richard Cloward''' and his wife '''[[Frances Fox Piven]]''', the namesakes for the strategy.  The plan entails collapsing the [[U.S.]] economy by overburdening the welfare roles in a way which would leverage unheard of levels of spending and debt to the point of total systemic collapse.  Cloward and Piven wrote about their plan in an article they co-authored in the 1960s called "Mobilizing the Poor: How it Could Be Done." Later, it was published in ''[[The Nation]]'', under the title "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty."

==History==

==Overview==

Cloward and Piven were radical leftist [[Columbia University]] professors who believed in "change" and "social justice." Inspired by the Watts riots of [[Los Angeles]] in 1965, they wrote and published their article which outlined the best way to bring the kind of [[Saul Alinsky]]-type social change to America.

Cloward and Piven were radical leftist [[Columbia University]] professors who believed in "change" and "social justice." Inspired by the Watts riots of [[Los Angeles]] in 1965, they wrote and published their article which outlined the best way to bring the kind of [[Saul Alinsky]]-type social change to America.