Nixon’s 1969 FAP aimed to extend welfare to African American men

Evidence

Until this time, Democrats and Republicans alike were committed to the redistributive policies of the family wage, although they were divided on the question of whether or not it should be extended to African American men. By 1969, however, even the Republican President Nixon was convinced that the public assistance program, AFDC, should be made more inclusive and secured on a firmer, federal basis. His proposed new program—the Family Assistance Plan or FAP—promised to extend basic income guarantees to men, to two-parent families, and to those engaged in low-waged work. It also promised to include African American men within welfare benefits for the very first time. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 229

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: why did FAP fail? The defeat of the most inclusive welfare reform in US history is a pivotal anti-Keynesian/anti-welfare inflection point.