Social service workers, not the poor, were major beneficiaries of 1960s urban programs.

Evidence

See Frances Piven’s convincing essay in which she argues that social service workers were the major beneficiaries of federal programs concerned with cities and poor people in the 1960s. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1529

Categorization

• XREF: Piven and Cloward’s ‘The Politics of Turmoil’ — connects to reader’s work on how institutional interests capture reform programs.