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When government gets mean
Ehrenreich, Barbara | November 17, 1997 issue

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The article examines the nature of the state and the direction in which it is going. It calls for cutting military spending and expand social spending. Progressivism is almost defined by its advocacy of an "activist government." In the sixties and seventies pressured by the civil rights movement the nascent feminist movement and a still-muscular labor movement- the federal government expanded both its economic protections and its guarantees of civil liberties. The society gained, in little more than a decade, Medicare and Medicaid, workplace safety and environmental regulations, cost-of-living, increases in social security and laws against race- and sex- based discrimination.

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WELFARE state; PROGRESSIVISM; CIVIL rights movements; FEMINISM; MEDICARE; SOCIAL security; COST & standard of living
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