Winter 2025

Frances Fox Piven and Michael Walzer spoke at a City University of New York symposium on “The Vanishing American Left” in September 2006.

In August, President Bill Clinton signed a bill that ended the sixty-year-old program for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). To be sure, this was not an entirely new development. Since the 1960s, when the welfare rolls expanded, Republican …