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The invention of homelessness
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Sep 18 2010
Over the past two decades, we relied on an increasingly deregulated society in which the “genius of market forces” would meet our needs, in which tax cuts, made possible by cuts to programs that largely benefited poor and average-income people, were supposed to “trickle down” to benefit those in need. The competitive economy required, we were told, wage suppression and part-time jobs with no benefits. By the early 1980s, countries like Canada needed a new term for a new social problem. The word “homelessness” filled the gap… It is a catch-all term for a host of serious social and economic policy failures.
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