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Cloward-Piven strategy
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English
Etymology
Introduced in 1966 by American activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.
Proper noun
1
en politics The proposed strategy of using militant antipoverty groups to cause a political crisis by overloading the welfare system with an enormous number of claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income.
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