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- Title
Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s.
- Authors
BALLANTYNE, DAVID T.
- Abstract
This article traces the approach of moderate southern Senators toward domestic hunger and welfare in the late 1960s and the 1970s. Often overlooked in scholarly accounts, these Senators formed a significant minority of the southern delegation. Their behavior demonstrates both the continued possibilities of a more inclusive southern politics after the mid-1960s and the importance of moderate southerners to the Food Stamp Program's major expansion in the years after 1964. At the same time, however, these politicians opposed guaranteed-income schemes and endorsed "workfare" measures promoted by more conservative southerners that conditioned aid on participation in low-wage employment.
- Subjects
FOOD stamps; HUNGER; NINETEEN sixties
- Publication
Journal of American Studies, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 2, p253
- ISSN
0021-8758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021875822000299