Cloward and piven plan, a Cloward-Piven political strategy is delineated by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Then, both social scientists and policy makers at the Columbia University School of Social Work, in a 1966 article in The Nation entitled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty“. Cloward and piven both quarreled that many Americans who were qualified for welfare were not getting benefits,...  Read More