Programs for the poor get framed as societal costs rather than benefits

Evidence

These convictions are epitomized in the observation that public programs for poor people are almost always treated in the pres~ as costs to society, not benefits. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1304

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in moral panics and stigma framing (cf. ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ on dress as class signaling).